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To: Alex who wrote (43878)	10/26/1999 12:46:00 PM
From: IngotWeTrust	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116815

Alex quotes: First National's failure has created a $465,000 hole in Keystone's municipal budget,forcing officials to lay off six of 15 employees. The bank's loss also has taken $200,000 out of McDowell County's annual $2.9 million budget, officials said. Katherine Young, a manager of a medical equipment business in Northfork, said she fears ripple effects if Keystone bank's failure takes down its top two officers. ''It's like the town is going to be a ghost town,' she said. MY COMMENTARY: It is quite fascinating to me to read the above quotation from Alex's post. People who think there are no cascading effects dead ahead in Y2K's occasionally 'system failures' scenario aren't paying very close attention. I submit we have many cascading affects ahead, and one of Y2K's primary beneficiaries is going to be the PRICE OF GOLD! O/49r For those who want to reread Alex's entire proferred article on the bank failure for a different perspective, please click: biz.yahoo.com