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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (29264)	10/14/1999 9:42:00 AM
From: J. P.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

A 1929 style crash would only bring us to 8500? That's not so scary. It seems like only yesterday we were at 8500. Good luck to all.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (29264)	10/14/1999 10:52:00 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

GZ.. another puzzle.. I think your chart is great but in this co-relation lets try to super impose the corporate earnings from the same period and now, also GDP growth , you may be little surprised to see what that co-relationship reveals.. Next.. look at this one, we say the economy is overheating, yesterday I had some guests over one is a PhD from Cambridge and trade arbitrage, the other is a soft ware programmer and makes software for trading the third is also a trader, I asked htem this simple question.. If economy is overheating at 3% brisk rate where is that growth coming from... according to experts 15% of the economy is Tech economy, and 85% is the old economy, the 15% tech economy is growing at a brisk rate of 30% whereas the total economy is trading at 3% rate, so in actual terms isn't it so that the old economy is deflating instead of overheating, if the total economy growth rate is only 3% than the cement and mortar economy is actually shrinking by 1.5%.. fwiw Yesterday as I was jogging in the park this Idea came in my mind, I thought to ask Zack he was quite curious but last night the 'trade gurus' who come and sit with me to exchange pleasantries and like to get a feel of things will quite surprised, they had a great time.. we all enjoyed a great laught, comparisons some time of different periods and product cycles need certain inputs which is no visible and that is one problem.. your chart is great I will write on this surely and try ot make comparisons if I can get the data of corporate earnings and GDP ..