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To: Dealer who wrote (28016)	1/3/2001 8:37:22 AM
From: edamo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 65232

dealer...perhaps some tend to be iconoclasts.... outrage toward "paid professionals".....only if you are foolish enough to believe in them and their advice has caused you harm.....same applies to amatuers.... i guess we differ on what constitutes an attack....stating a fact, even if the reality hurts, not always meant as an attack, but perhaps as an eye opener......

To: Dealer who wrote (28016)	1/3/2001 9:28:54 AM
From: Jill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 65232

It especially makes me wince because I know all the offline time RR and Voltaire gave Jim. Huge amounts of time. I really know very few successful investors who didn't go through a testing period at some time in their life, before they gained a realistic view on the market and its vagaries. By that I mean, EVERYBODY I respect has at some point lost their shirt. But they learned from it. Teresa Lo...for instance...who retired at 33...says she blew out her account 3 times (probably in her early 20s) before she got it. RR says that has happened to him. I remember edamo once telling me it happened when he was very young. The fed overdid it. They've done so in the past. They may have created a recession, we'll see. Many people are very upset, myself included. It's no fun. But I just don't understand the overt or covert blaming of other investors who state what they're doing or how they view the market. Opinions are all over SI, that's what its about. We each choose which ones to read.