To: 2MAR$ who wrote (66819 ) 2/8/2001 3:57:04 PM From: If only I'd held Read Replies (2) | Respond to Abbey can make up all the lame-ass excuses she wants for the weak economy, but the reason the economy is weak is because of crims like her and her bosses. They have robbed the individual investor blind the past year. Lied all the way. They talked of how great things were, screamed buy buy buy stocks that could never ever possibly live up to their valuations. And now, as people are seeing the damage that these lies and manipulated stocks have done to their finances, they find themselves a bit sheepish about going out to buy that new car, boat or house they were thinking they would buy back in March. The market got stampeded with new investors. People that never played the market found themselves managing 2,3, even 4 on-line trading accounts for themselves and some even trading money for their freinds and family. Well, the investment bankers staged a nice little ripoff allright. They somehow managed to convince most of these novice dopes with no fundamental research abilities that SCMR was a good buy at 200 bucks, That CSCO deserved a market cap of 3/4 of a trillion dollars. That EBAY (a freakin' auctioneer) should be worth 20-30 billion dollars. That ISLD with their 5 million dollars in money losing revenues was worth 150 bucks a share. Lies lies lies. Now people are broke. Money is tight. Most of them are too damn busy trying to make some money the old fashioned way...by working, to pay their insanely inflated bills. Their bills are going thru the roof, but their pay isn't. They scream buy, get the suckers in, then smash them and squeeze the very last dime from them until they are gone. Now poor Abbey and her cohorts are running out of bagholders. Not too much money seems to want to come in to this market these days. They talk of it being piled up on the sidelines...well, it ain't coming in to save the day. That money is waiting till they can rob somebody blind before they make a buy. Buy low, sell high. Sorry, but we are far from low yet. Where is the money gonna come from? Abbey and her cohorts ought to be asking themselves that. Our government is all but printing new money. Nope, we got troubles ahead. I have never seen Abbey or her cohorts say or do anything that was for anyone's benefit but their own. And my guess is, they are looking for bagholders. I ain't holding their bags. This market is waiting for a crash and I think we will get it. Till then, don't let these liars convince you to turn your back on anything you buy for even a second. The market and the investment banks that control it stole a lot of money from people last year with their lies and manipulation.
