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Technology Stocks : Newbridge Networks
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To: Tunica Albuginea who wrote (6724)9/29/1998 3:35:00 PM
From: pat mudge  Read Replies (1) of 18016
 
We just don't need more micro-chip factories -- or more coffee bars.

The writer had my attention until I got this far. Coffee bars may be the one thing we do need. If the rest of the world goes cyber, they may become our most accessed means of human contact. And in today's market the caffeine keeps me from terminal snooze.

As for the global economic picture, I'm in the top row of the highest balcony, looking through binoculars trying desperately to see what the players are doing. From where I sit I can hardly see their lips move to say nothing of knowing what their words mean.

I grew up with a grandmother who saw a red under every bed and if her fears had been realized, our churches would be boarded up and our children spouting Das Kapital in Russian. Little did she realize her reactionary excesses would leave me ill equipped to respond to rhetoric such as Maggie Mahar's.

She's right that Alan Greenspan is not going to save the world. No one person or country can. And, frankly, I find that comforting.

Later --

Pat

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