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To: Crossy who wrote (11487)	6/19/2001 3:07:28 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Hi Crossy, now I'm finding myself right into the debate that I wanted to avoid initially. <g> I'm about to leave for a hike up into the snowfields in the Cascades. I recommend the same for you on your pistes! OTOH I have always had a real world job (if you elect to think that academia is part of the fake world <g>). Academia isn't something so easily pigeonholed, of course. It's brought us breathtaking scientific advances, and some of the most inane religious claptrap and psycho-babble the world has ever known. It is, in short, a mixed bag. I have a special desire to skewer the economics crowd, who just love to preface their insights with statements like "All things being equal" or "Based on our premises". You know, words that help them to disregard vast aspects of reality that are inconvenient to their theorization. Again you infer a value judgement: You say this as if I'm making a mistake. I nonconcur. A non-judgemental speculator is a busted/BK speculator. Being non-judgemental is anathema to my being. And I don't dwell on the shibboleths of my own belief structure, I focus on what Mr. Market is thinking, doing and about to react to. All based on corporate welfare ? Crossy, maybe you haven't dealt with my prose enough. I tend to have a pampleteers style, I trade in hyperbole, the exaggerated and wild accusation to try to help stimulate your thought process. And yes, broadly defined, corporate welfare is how the world runs. Just as NASA. Today, the mechanisms of the US Federal government are largely in the hands of the monopolists. It was not always so. In the days of Teddy Roosevelt or his cousin Franklin, the general public and the workenstiff had much more of a seat at the table. Anyway, we aren't going to convince each other of anything here on the Say's Theorem front. So I've got a red herring and jellyroll question for you. My Hock Deutsche is extremely limited, so I need verification of this. A radio personality on NPR last weekend said that JFK made a gaffe in Berlin in 1963 when he said "Ich Bien Ein Berliner." She claims that the absolutely literal translation of this is "I'm a jelly-filled donut". Was she putting me on? Cheers, Ray :) PS: Investing is a disovery process. And often a painful one at that. <w>