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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (55476)	6/29/2000 12:10:00 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116762

"Database managment has permitted the blanketing of the American population with credit cards, and credit-scoring software has seemingly made it possible to conduct a far-flung lending business on an actuarial basis with resultant savings in time spent on the due diligence that formerly was part and parcel of individual lending decisions." This guys makes fantastic reading... "Without the Internet, there would have been no day-trading boom" "Digital communications on Wall Street have become a kind of speculative particle accelerator, increasing the velocity of sentiment, money flows and statistical information." "On the positive side it has sped the development of risk-management techniques, on the negative side, it has promoted the formation of crowds making markets even more emotional and volatile." DAK