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To: Wayners who wrote (123515)	4/11/2001 3:55:29 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

"They need to cut the bad loans and let the phony asset values the banks carry on their books decrease the way they should. " This is similar to what has happened to internet-related stocks on the NAZ in the past year. The sell-off has ben a reflection of their poor fundamentals, first and foremost.

To: Wayners who wrote (123515)	4/11/2001 4:10:46 PM
From: NOW	Respond to of 164684

Wayne, you make it sound so easy, it is a wonder they have not done so... But imagine you are a Japanese banker, and you call in some bad loans, and then 3 am your phone wrings, and a voice says: "do you know where your children are right now?" See the movie Jubaku for a taste of this. Of course it is only one terrifying aspect of why staightening things out is not so easy...