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To: Don Lloyd who wrote (76234)	2/19/2000 1:51:00 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Don, As you're surely well aware, the real purpose of posting any such link is to incite nods of approval from the in-crowd here. That a scalar measure such as "margin debt" is too simplistic to be directly useful is besides the point when one can cite a title with such psychologically laden words as "drunken" and "binge". I'm not sure it's even possible to know just how all that margin is being used today, with all the strategies that are available, and this ironically in spite of the data processing that is possible now.

To: Don Lloyd who wrote (76234)	2/19/2000 3:42:00 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

don, rising margin is one issue. 150% mortgages and the like are also disconcerting. negative savings rates don't appear to be positive, either. taken as a whole... tl & ev appear to be at the door step.