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To: Lane3 who wrote (2364)	9/15/2001 7:24:10 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51711

I don't want to give those crowds in Palestine who were cheering on TV at the attack another reason to cheer. It would be bad for my country and encouraging to the enemy I thought that might be the root of it, Karen. I doubt if you will be given coverage of children cheering because the stock market swings back and forth. The people we saw "cheering" a huge explosion and thousands dead...they know nothing about puts and calls. If ANYONE artificially values a company at a phony level tomorrow, it is THEY who will hurt the country by destroying businesses and their investors. The stock market is a reflection of REALITY. The reality is that many companies in America are striong and will become stronger. The REALITY is that many are weak and that many will become weaker. Pretending an imaginary reality helps nobody. You don't tell a soldier to "pretend" he has a gun and attack a dozen people. You dpon't teach a poker player to "pretend" he has a good hand. Winning players don't pretend. They pretend to pretend. Whatever the market does on Monday will reflect the confidence of investors in the companies which make up the exchange. Some of the investing will be short term. Some of it will be long term. But the best thing people can do when they buy into a company is to believe in it and not to be pretending. Pretending is like lying. It gets found out and people suffer. There is absolutely nothing to be gained by anybody circumventing their own best judgement because they are afraid some punks might be caught laughing. I'm sorry, Karen. ruly, I respect where you are coming from. Believe me, I do. You may downplay your patriotism, but you canot hide your dignity or pride. But I believe the free market is the best defense against those brainwashed children who misinterpret reality. For anyone to go against their own independent evaluation of profit as they trade tomorrow is martyrdom that is not required in this instance. I believe that shorting the market when it is already so low is incredibly dangerous on the individual level. At the end of the day, the money has to fill to the top of the agitator. But if someone wishes to take that risk--well, they are not risking their country, but their family. The country has strong companies and weak companies. People can buy losing companies if they choose to, of course. Many of us got a great deal of practice doing that last year... Surely, you don't think that people should buy companies going bankrupt? or that people should keep buying companies that appear to have reached a high, or that bpeople should simply leave money in any one company when they feel it is become at risk? When people try to do the best for themselves, they do the best for the overall economy. They reward all the qualities that create sucessful companies and people, and they refuse to risk the education of their children by trying to fence in smoke. I cannot imagine a more dangerous time to short, but if an individual thinks it will feed her child--well, that is what human existence is about...