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To: Eric Wells who wrote (87094)	12/11/1999 12:03:00 PM
From: Jan Crawley	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

Hi Eric, I posted the following MDA post here a couple of weeks ago. There are a few before-&-after related postings on the Mda thread that are quite informative. Message 12189246 Thread/LG et al, I want to clarify this liquidity stuff everyone is talking about. For all the money a person owns, he or she usually has less than 1% of it in paper. Check your wallets, and your coin drawer to confirm it. In actuality, for all the money that people own (in the market of plastic money, stock money and Byte money), there is only 2% of it represented by paper money ($$ bills). With this background, the fed focused on one possible scenario that they can fix. Consider this: In my neighbor....I foresee two possible outcomes due to this: 1. Larger number of burgularies(Be careful), 2. shortage of paper money that may lead to panic. The second outcome is what the fed is working to ensure does not occur by printing more paper. BUT BY PRINTING MORE PAPER THEY ARE NOT INCREASING MORE MONEY FOR PEOPLE TO INVEST IN THE MARKET. Therefore, i don't buy this "market going up due to the fed printing more money argument (please correct me if you have a different viewpoint)." Market is going up because, the common man has become interested in making the same money their freind is making. Historically, this has been the sign of getting out of the market. In the mean time, you have to put up with, "xyz is making so much money in the market, why don't you also day trade". This reminds me of the poem by Kipling called If......