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Strategies & Market Trends : Sharck Soup -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: fswep who wrote (11754)	3/14/2001 12:29:33 PM
From: velociraptor_	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 37746

Ward, I agree that Japan has been ignored for far too long. their financial troubles are a lot bigger thn most people care to look at and the fact that they are heavy US investors ties their problems in with us unfortunately. Foreign capital was also big factor in the market bubble. As for the US surplus and tax cuts....Bush won't get nearly what he is asking for if anything at all. That surplus is based in the high growth of the last few years which has now come to a halt and with literally an abundance of bankruptcies, both personal and business, that surplus will vanish faster than it came. You hit the nail on the head with the rate cut issue. Greeny has more problems than he can shake a stick at and they're not all in the US. The market bubble was due to investor greed and it irritates the hell out of me that everyone is blaming Greenspan. Greenspan did NOT force anyone to buy at ridiculous prices and he will not cut rates just to support an overinflated market that should not be where it is anyway. Greenspan's biggest problem to solve is to keep the world economy afloat as the US is the major anchor and Japan's is the 2nd biggest and about to fail. There needs to be a balance and he won't save ours and watch everyone else's collapse...after all, we also depend on other economies to keep ours going. These big babies on TV and in the public need to quit crying for a tax cut to bail them out for their stupid mistakes. It's not going to happen and it won't work anyway. That's why the market is so much lower after a full point reduction already. Anyway...I could go on and probably write a book about my thoughts on everything. It's hard to balance school and the market and in truth I have probably been lax in school lately. I plan on wrapping things up here and taking my Master's instead of the PhD. I just have more opportunities elsewhere. Once all this is washed out, I may take the time to enroll for an MBA though as it seems to be more my forte. Not sure I can help you with sources for your projects as most of what I know is just learned experience from several years of reading tens of thousands of messages and articles over the internet. Good luck though. Velo