To: JDinBaltimore who wrote (36433 ) 1/18/2001 12:28:51 PM From: IQBAL LATIF Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 50167 JDIn you get the best out of me and i like to respond to you, you disagree with lot of character and lot of style and I respond with lot of passion and dynamism, that is what makes this debate for my education and for those who are interested in these banal conversations a hit. For me my objective is to make you buy stocks for you to get me out of the market, both of us sincerely trying to get the best for each other, with my technicolor glasses I see a lot of color with yours you see a different end of the spectrum, but we will do what we do the best, keep arguing with best of our intellectual ability, let the free flow continue their is no problem and no egos, your points are well taking, but you forgot my ealrier post, life is half a gamble and half a chance, nothing is sure so for us on hte long side to take things up needs a lot more courage a lot more color and a lot more optimism, for that nose dive what you need is that sun stop shinning we will be dead anyway, that optimism v/s pessimism and self imposed bearish mantra is a kind of destructive streak that I want to get you rid off.. <<On the Flying/Economic anology - if Greenspan dosen't land he dosen't die, once you take-off, after 10' you better know how to land >> Flying and markets are not he same analogy, I beg your pardon Sir, flying needs a lot of power on take offs a consistent suply of power on route and needs to be curtailed on landing. I mix the three, if the 4th engine is disengaged it better be, I would rather have my 4th disengaged than to run in the ground. The ability of disengagment is what this soft landing is all about. If we continue to run at white hot speed in macro economic sense we just don't have the resources to limit huge strides of development within a sphere of time, for us these cyclicals slow downs and catching up of the market with the corporate profits like you saw today IBM's earning is beauty, I am enjoying it and notice this beautiful double winged economy toaking to the skies and coming back to rejuvenate take some life water in and go back to whre it belongs..Now on SI how many bubbly character like me write with sense of surety that I have, I rather would put a bullit in my head instead of writng if I have to say what the heck I know, if i know nothing I should not be wasting my own and my childrens time, for me I share the little I know in search of people like you who are intellectually great enough to listen to me although you don't agree, that is itself a service i am grateful, I see that when I come hard on my thread the other postings just die down, I feel bad and I sometime think that leave of absence may be good but overall that is the reason Idea is so much associated with IKe.. and his waywardness..let things fly is what i think is my motto. and thankyou very much for asking me so many questions, I like them and keep learning form them.. love and regards.. and by the way oil is already at 26 after the huge cuts from OPEC..