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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (7584)	9/1/1999 7:53:00 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 81239

<<Look at the oil market, agricultural, real estate market (at least here in DC), and some of the other commodity indices. Higher prices are certainly warranted in certain areas, but Greenjeans is locked into this frettin' mode about price inflation.>> The way I'm looking at it: petroleum is near break-even for 55-65% of producers not laterally integrated, agriculture is a problem mostly for those items which are traded as "commodities", and I also (falsely) believed real estate showed signs of inflation until looking closer at the rural (non-recreational) and smaller town properties. I'm just not sure how these deflationary and inflationary prices in real estate could be averaged. <<It is uncontrolled inflation that creates the real concerns. Not workers showing greater productivity and being properly rewarded financially for that productivity.>> Yes, that?s near the only point most Republicans, Democrats, and Independents can agree on. Productivity should not be penalized by the Fed.! Yes, the only real "inflation" is in many of (in some cases we will agree this is using the term loosely) assets in the US financial markets. Well, silver has gone from low of 4.28 to 5.??. but this might be "reflation". <<And the small cap sectors, where entrepreneurialship and innovation are derived, are almost completely ignored by the institutions because they are simply too illiquid to handle the inflows of all of that 401K money.>> ?good? news here, Mutual fund flows are down 99 compared to 98! <<It won't change until congress starts to create the incentives for individual stock ownership over the long term, such as negating capital gains for holders of individual stocks for longer than 2-3 years.>> And the Democrats won?t sign off on this at all, and Greenspan not until after ?THE Final CORRECTION?! <<Sorry to ramble off the main point, but some of the things that Greenspan and the market are worrying about are completely due to the systemic monster they have permitted to be created.>> GEEZ, you can get it ?right? also! When the ?saved us? from the systemic risk, JUST WHO THE F*&% did they save? ? (And is the systemic risk any less now than it was?) Maybe they should simply fire him?