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To: jlallen who wrote (219733)	1/18/2002 11:41:14 AM
From: bonnuss_in_austin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It's not elitist at all. It's poignantly empathetic... ...and true. Most people in this country don't know how to read a balance sheet. Much less understand SEC filings/research. The complexity of corporate reporting -- deliberately so, with the CPA profession in such glaring focus now via ENE -- doens't help matters, obviously. Many people on SI have spent years, for many hours every single day, on the Internet researching the markets, learning more about finance, etc...and I would guess that many still don't understand fundamental aspects of corporate accounting and finance. It ain't because they/we are stupid, either. Compare this group to the general working public. The corporate employee does not have the TIME to self-educate about international finance. 'Elitist' seems to be another of your pet epithets, 'jlallen,' that you hurl around with abandon and glee that you don't really understand. bia