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To: Andre Williamson who wrote (18668)	1/26/2001 2:01:20 PM
From: im a survivor	Respond to of 60323

<<You do make your contributions, but your constant complaining substantially degrades their perceived value and readability.>> I agree with that....ignore is working again, so I don't know what conspiracy he is complaining about now, but I can imagine. When I used to read his posts i wondered if this poor guy was an ex vietnam vet having flashbacks...or maybe a hippie from the 70's having flashbacks <ggg>....I mean all that paranoia comes from somewhere...... Oh take a chill limmer....just joshing ya a little bit. If ya can't laugh at yourself, then ya can't laugh at anybody.....heck today somebody made the comment that I could laugh all I want at those that had wrong predictions last year.......my response was i couldn't do that because I would spend all day looking in the mirror laughing my A$$ off........anyway, gotta be able to chill and sit back......and limmer ask yourself a question...why is it that on every thread you visit it's the same old thing.....there must be a reason for this....think about it. I don;t think it's "gang up on limmer" time....there must be a reason you always engage in the type of dialog that you do....one last question and I dont even know why I am asking since I wont see the answer anyway, but why, if you are that pessimistic about the market, are you not short, or at least in cash??? What possesses somebody to be so negative about something, but do the exact opposite of his feelings. You, my friend, need to be short QQQ and everything else on Naz, because you obviously feel the end of the markets, economy and world, as we know it, are over. But, if you are correct, even that cash under your mattress wont mean squat....we'll be back to trading pieces of bark like in the stone ages <ggg> Chill Dude....life is too short

To: Andre Williamson who wrote (18668)	1/26/2001 7:51:11 PM
From: limtex	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

AW and KG if you haven't got the ignore on. The ecomomy was singing along quite merrily at 4%+. Att the time there was no massive inflation. There were some signs and the jobless number was low. The only real problem were the lunatics at OPEC who again came and tried to dig their snouts into someone elses hard work and innovation and force out some more unearned gains. But that apart there was no major inflation push. I happen to believe that no-one really knows the actual total number of people available for work and in any case you could always try to get some of the recently retired to re-enter the job market. There are pllenty of creative ways to increase the work force but Mr G sin't ever think about doing that. He made constant reference to the market and onlya few weeks ago we actually heard teh truth from Larry Summers when he stated that we couldn't carry on like that with the Naz doing what it was. I believe that Mr G targeted the Naz. I am not the only one who believes this. Anyway even if you don't agree with that the fact is that the US economy was going along at 4%+ and now it is generally agreed even by Mr G that growth is ZERO. What I find remarkable is that we might with a genius like Mr G at the helm have reduced growth to say 3% or even 2.75% but here we are at 0%. Why? Oh well one might say, so what? So we'll have a recssion for afew qtrs and who cares about the Naz anyway. Well a lot of people care about the Naz. And a lot of people have lost a lot of money, true some have made, but some have lost and they have lost because Mr G put the brakes on and he put them on so hard and so long at a time that they weren't needed at all that the US economy went through what we now know to have been a precipitous drop in December alone. That may have been the swiftest decleration of all time. And why did the economy have to be stopped dead in its tracks? Wasn't a soft landing good enough? Thats what I can't understand. How this genius managed to bring the greatest beneficial economic grwoth in the history of the US to a grinding halt in virtually 1 qtr. And so what one might ask. Well the IPO market has dried up so a lot of IPOs are on hold or even cancelled, and someof them are Biotechs and some of those biotechs are in the business of saving lives, lives of everyday ordinary people poeple like me and becuase they have been delayed or cancelled I might one day get ill and the medcine won't be there becuase the IPO got delayed. Sounds a bit of a leap to make the connection one might say, well OK but it is a connection nonetheless. And there are other, peole now being laid off and why when all this as I say was unnecessary. As regards the state of the World economy I don't have to speak to that it is being done quite adequately in Davos right now. I just refer to the CFO of Microsoft who was asked about their business in December and said that they had only within the last couple of weeks noitced a precipitous drop off in their business "Around the World". Thats why I got so excersized about it. Best regards, L