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Strategies & Market Trends : The Millennium Crash -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Arik T.G. who wrote (4993)	3/23/2000 1:08:00 PM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5676

<You're wrong when you think this will not happen soon.> Why is that? <There is no way I can think of for this mania to endure past the next two quarters> That is the whole point: the way you think. You need to question that, unless, of course, you think your thoughts are beyond scrutiny.

To: Arik T.G. who wrote (4993)	3/23/2000 2:12:00 PM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5676

thanks for you posts -- somtime I'll join you on that "other" thread

To: Arik T.G. who wrote (4993)	3/24/2000 9:41:00 AM
From: Ram Srinivasan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5676

Arik, I appreciate your posts. Regarding your comment: "My underlying assumption that human nature is the same and nothing new ever happens in the markets." I would have agreed with that whole-heartedly a few weeks ago. Then I saw an article on Yahoo (I searched for the link now, can't find it - perhaps someone else can help) which said the market may be literally, not just metaphorically on Prozac. The point is that with new anti-depressant drugs widely in use, perhaps human nature itself is fundamentally changing, causing us to become less prone to violent market downturns. A similar point about human nature changing is made by Francis Fujiyama in a recent book, and was discussed in a George Will column. Of course, I am not altogether sure this is a good thing. Would Lincoln have been as great a man if he had been through several bouts of depression in his life ? Ram