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To: Lucretius who wrote (18951)	3/20/2000 2:23:00 PM
From: KeepItSimple	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42523

>geez, this is almost comical... INTC is holding up all 3 averages... LOL You expected something else? Everyone knows the market has gotten narrower and narrower, with money concentrating in just a few dozen stocks.. Well that few dozen became 10, then 5, and now it's just ONE FRIGGING STOCK. Intel. After all, as a country we're just placing bets against each other with 4 letter symbols as placeholders. The companies underneath have no relevance whatsoever to the stock price. So we, as a country, can either just make up a new symbol for a company that doesnt exist, and bid that one up and down, or we can pick an existing stock and do the same. stockgeneration.com used to do the former, with their fantasy "virtual stocks" in the cayman islands- after sucking in around 100 million dollars in cash the owners split town with the loot a few weeks ago. (SHOCKER!) So, our country is doing the latter. We're just bidding up ONE STOCK. And luckily, that stock is in every major index, so a small amount of money can keep up the appearance of a non-crashing market.