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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (107800)	6/8/2001 8:12:29 PM
From: pater tenebrarum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

among the people suing the former targets of their investment dollars you'll certainly also a find a bunch of the geniuses that ridiculed our timely warnings...it's everybody's fault, just not theirs. that said, the WS propaganda machinery deserves the disdain, since it has certainly misled the less well informed investors. see also the practice of selling into one's own upgrades and the like.

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (107800)	6/9/2001 12:37:57 AM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 436258

<In retrospect, the angry -- and often unstable -- reaction of investors isn't all that surprising. Between 1989 and 1999, about 26.4 million brand new investors jumped into the stock market, increasing the total number of investors by 50 percent, according to the Securities Industry Association, a trade group for securities firms. > I guess these guys don't realize... it's "stocks for the long run"... REAL LONG RUN. You won't read about these guys when the stats about stocks outperforming are spewed by the main stream press... sadly, for millions, stocks will NEVER outperform. DAK