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To: GraceZ who wrote (428)	2/20/2002 10:50:27 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 443

I would divide up news on financial publications into different categories. The most important to me is the data. For example, every day back in the 1920's-1930's, the NYTimes printed yesterday's bond sales on the NYSE, broken down by U.S., domestic, and foreign, as well as the data for a year ago, and the data for two years ago. The only other place you'll find that data will be the NYSE archives, if they kept the data, I have no idea. But the NYTimes probably got the numbers right, since they got it from the NYSE. Most historians and economists use aggregated data, which I think is not sensitive enough. But they are lazy and get it from databases which were collected already, and they all use the same data. I don't mind sitting down in the library and collecting disaggregated data. I love archival research. I am also interested in people's opinions about the market. It doesn't matter to me whether they were right, it matters to me what they thought.