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To: John Madarasz who wrote (122680)	9/17/2001 10:11:12 AM
From: JRI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

You got a clue about how long this pump can keep the market from further down? I'm thinking this week, and then more trouble... Barring, of course, further developments in the crisis

To: John Madarasz who wrote (122680)	9/17/2001 11:22:32 AM
From: pater tenebrarum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

true...the ideal of the free market was thrown overboard a long time ago...to be precise, in '87. ever since the '87 BK, the official credo is that markets are not to be trusted, and thus should be subject to intervention. of course a rogue event like the attack on the WTC forces the authorities hand, but that doesn't change the fact that this is intervention number umpteen to keep the paper mountain intact by growing it even larger. it is precisely because this element has been introduced (the Greenboink put, basically) that we have experienced the bubble and its aftermath.