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To: jim black who wrote (734)	11/17/2000 1:50:59 PM
From: marginmike	Respond to of 74559

There are Govt bond MM fund's much safer IMHO

To: jim black who wrote (734)	11/17/2000 2:12:37 PM
From: Rajkea	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Could you show information about the fine print in Money Markets. I thought they were insured up to 500,000.

To: jim black who wrote (734)	11/17/2000 2:17:14 PM
From: vegetarian	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

>>I am out of money markets entirely and have 90 day T.bills. Do you feel safe in money markets if Osama bin Laden takes out another American warship and/or little camel boy(saddam) moves on Kuwait again. << So can you point us to instances of periods where keeping money in money markets actually resulted in incurring losses for investors (not just underperformance but actual losses)? In principle, I agree that the value of the money market fund can fall below $1 based on where and how the money is invested. Many of those investments appear safe enough though if you were invested in a reasonable fund like FDRXX (Fidelity's money market fund).