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To: AllansAlias who wrote (26551)	10/10/2000 7:35:28 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Respond to of 436258

Dead Fish Futures being sold IN SOIZE! (from today's Rap: Dead fish futures. . . I think what's happened recently is finally going to sober up some of the dead fish and cause them to make an attempt and try to do their job and try to get out in front of problems and start being analysts again instead of cheerleaders. Most of these people won't be able to, but some of them will. The fair disclosure rules that take effect in a couple of weeks are also going to place a tremendous premium on research. No more will the companies simply be able to guide their favorite analysts who can then guide their favorite customers (read mutual funds) to the proper conclusions. Research and anticipating (versus reacting) is going to be at a premium, as it usually is in the investment business, with the exception of the recent mania and a couple of other crazy periods in the past. The stock market is a discounting mechanism and may begin acting more like one prospectively. In the recent past, to paraphrase Warren Buffett, it has more resembled a voting machine rather than a weighing machine. In my opinion, the pendulum is beginning to swing in the other direction.