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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4517)	6/8/2001 1:03:45 PM
From: pater tenebrarum	Respond to of 74559

i see what you mean re. shares...yes, that is a sound theory, in principle. of course, there are supercycles governing the stock market too, and you're better off in money market funds than stocks during a supercycle (or secular) bear market period. such as 1929 - 1949, and 1966 - 1982 (denotes the periods during which riskless money market funds outperformed stocks on a total return basis). so you still don't get around the issue of timing your stock market investments, if you want to preserve capital and get the optimum return on it.