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To: HairBall who wrote (295)	1/23/2001 12:56:04 PM
From: LPS5	Respond to of 595

Where in my original post... Message 15216101 Merchandising to me means the buying and selling of goods or commodities. If you are suggesting that the markets are a way of bringing together buyers and sellers, I agree. But you seem to suggest - and correct me if I read your message wrong - that there is something insidious afoot. How do equity, fixed income, or options markets (whether or not they are exchanges, and however they operate) "manipulate" sentiment? Are you suggesting that there is a conspiracy at work? That above and beyond the market participants (puttiing aside the popularly ludicrous proposal that they are all "corrupt enterprises" in every aspect of their businesses), the exchanges and market centers are corrupt and have malevolent, ulterior motives as well? Or that the alternative to a market - which would seem to be an "infinitely" fragmented, often price discontinuous, inarguably information-bereft environment of dissociated buying and selling - would be an improvement? ...did I say or suggest the following: Message 15216282 If you don't believe manipulation of the markets exist, then that is your choice. How is, or does, posing rhetorical questions amount to stating that manipulation "doesn't" exist? LPS5