To: torquatus who wrote (3695 ) 11/1/2000 2:22:40 PM From: Tunica Albuginea Respond to of 4155 torquekahones ( does it hurt ? vbg? I am sure it does: Shorts are shaking in their little booties now, VBG), I was going to say: No, I don't see the bonds being lower. I see that they are up todayfinance.yahoo.com Wednesday, November 1 2000 2:06pm ET - U.S. Markets close in 1 hour and 54 minutes. Symbol Last Trade Change CNC 1:45PM 6 13/16 -1/8 -1.80% CNC10L04 1:40PM 90 +3 +3.45% CNC8B03 10:57AM 78 +1 +1.30% GNT10F02 1:19PM 74 +3 +4.23% and I see that they are well UP from their 52 week low. So the answer, torqued, is no. At most Bonds maybe jittery off and on ( i don't follow them closely ) because of market /inflation jitters. Instead torqued, what I do note is TTEL going up. Did you put that on your screen? You should. What we have here is very simple torqued: We have a several morons-would-be-analysts who have never run a company, betting and trying to out smart Wendt, the man responsible for ~50% of the profit of GE the largest and most profitable ever co in the world. You are betting one excellent brain against several of questionable value.( Those are the brains that told you to buy the Naz at 5000 starting from Salmon , Blarney & Baloney with Colonic Gas and The Street Rag [ all IMHO of course ]). Or, in mathematical terms, there was only one Einstein and then there was everybody else, quoting Einstein. That's what we have torqued. Lift your head over the trees and look at the forest, cheers TA =================================================Message #3695 from torquatus at Nov 1, 2000 11:03 AM Have you noticed that the bonds are hitting new, pre-Gary Wendt lows? They must not know something you do. And those "earnings from mortgages"--you're referring to the trailer mortgages where the default rate climbed like a monkey up a coconut tree?