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To: Judith Williams who wrote (49165)	11/27/2001 11:57:44 AM
From: areokat	Respond to of 54805

Interesting blurb in the November Wired. "2001 is on track to be the third-biggest year ever for VC financing." wired.com Kat

To: Judith Williams who wrote (49165)	11/27/2001 12:25:08 PM
From: areokat	Respond to of 54805

>Good article on why this recession may be different and longer lasting.< A thoughtful response to the above article from a Fool poster. boards.fool.com <snip> "I think he's right in laying responsibility for our overheated 2000 economy at the feet of Alan Greenspan. Greenspan would have done better to heed the advise of arch-monetarist Milton Friedman who long ago proposed a rule to fix the rate of monetary growth." Kat

To: Judith Williams who wrote (49165)	11/27/2001 2:10:23 PM
From: Seeker of Truth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

"It only takes so much software to run a given amount of hardware" or some such sentence in that long opinion. Even high school kids know that you can buy another program and increase the number of capabilities of their system. The fixed ratio of so much software to a given amount of hardware is simply fantasy. I don't know how long the recession will last but that part of his "analysis" is simply wrong.

To: Judith Williams who wrote (49165)	11/27/2001 10:28:21 PM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

Good article on why this recession may be different and longer lasting: tnr.com; I hope it's just as accurate as this recent take of theirs on the progress of the war: "Two months since September 11, and one month since American bombing began, [our war effort has] gotten us exactly nowhere....Like previous adversaries, the Taliban have adjusted cleverly and predictably to the air campaign, moving heavy weaponry into mosques and hunkering down in trenches and caves. Meanwhile footage of the regrettable, inevitable collateral damage that results from even the most precise of air campaigns is slowly overtaking the footage that really matters--the ruin of downtown Manhattan--and weakening the will of our already weak-willed allies. Having found refuge in places that America will not, or cannot, bomb, it appears the Taliban will rule Afghanistan through the winter, thereby handing the United States a humiliating and gratuitous defeat." thenewrepublic.com tekboy/Ares@heeheehee.com