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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Earlie who wrote (86997)	12/16/2000 6:52:42 PM
From: Mike M2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Earlie, the debt issue reminds me of Freeman Tilden's line from " A World in Debt" ( 1936) "..it looks as if we were suffering from an overproduction of debt , not overproduction of goods." welcome back. Mike

To: Earlie who wrote (86997)	12/16/2000 8:52:28 PM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

>>As I have noted in the past, I got killed in 1998 << Not to dwell on something unpleasant, but was it the suprise rate cut by AG or something earlier?

To: Earlie who wrote (86997)	12/16/2000 10:26:41 PM
From: Frank Griffin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

What is your read on AMZN?

To: Earlie who wrote (86997)	12/18/2000 7:48:50 PM
From: John Pitera	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

earlie, excessive debt, whether for a company, a sector or an economy, can be a devastating situation to be in. Since then, by paying inordinate attention to the debt situations in companies, we have managed to extract a decent return simply by shorting only those companies that were in or heading for the bankruptcy courts. you and anyone who wants to do scans of companies with bonds that are paying the really high yields like 45 and 70%, (indicating that the common may be going to zero at some point) should check out the below site. tradebonds.com On that site you can go get bond quotes and get corp. bonds ranked by grade and see the big discount and thus very high yields from some of the junk debt. That can give a nice heads up of common stocks that could have further downside. John