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To: Monty Lenard who wrote (42550)	8/1/1999 11:13:00 AM
From: clochard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

FRANKFURT, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt said in remarks published on Sunday that U.S. share prices were being driven to unsustainable heights by ''psychopaths'' on Wall Street and that a slump was inevitable. Schmidt told Welt am Sonntag newspaper that the United States, despite being presented as a shining economic example to Germany, had a private savings ratio below zero and was creating an underclass of the working poor. ''Many people are enthusiastic about the United States at the moment. But people don't realise that the share price boom is totally overvalued and that psychopaths are driving the prices up,'' said the 80-year-old Social Democrat who was West German chancellor from 1974 to 1982. ''It's only a matter of time before the boom ends and prices tumble down again -- just as it happened in Japan.'' Schmidt said that by psychopaths he was referring to ''the young 30-year-old dealers and 40-year-old fund managers who with their daily and hourly fund allocations have no other aim than to get the best possible performance.'' ''These people lack an overview of the world and world economy and also of the responsibility that entails.'' Schmidt said the euro's depreciation by as much as 15 percent this year did not signify that the new currency was weak. He said he had witnessed the dollar trading at 3.47 marks and at 1.36 marks in the space of 1-1/2 years.