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To: Secret_Agent_Man who wrote (51431)	5/21/2000 12:40:00 AM
From: Techplayer	Respond to of 99985

Crusader, how are the job numbers fixed? I have never seen such a tight job market....also, what is the correlation between the trade deficit an the budget surplus? it looks to me that you are trying to compare an apple and an orange. tp

To: Secret_Agent_Man who wrote (51431)	5/21/2000 9:20:00 AM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

Crusader, the fact of the matter is that the treasury is in the market buying back some of its paper, so you have to assume that some debt is being repaid. I used to have a URL showing both historical treasury debt outstanding and one that showed it daily. The best way to see if we are in a budget surplus or not is to see if the debt is still growing month over month as it was before or not. If you have this URL, Id like to book mark it again (G). Zeev