To: yard_man who wrote (15957 ) 1/29/2003 11:00:29 PM From: dvdw© Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 19219 No possibility, whats different right now that few see, is that the future consumption needs of the whole economy are under review. That means most are looking in all the wrong places for where the activity is. This shows up in the wholesale destruction of value. This shows that any single capitalists does not even know if it's for them that any bell tolls. The truth is, there is a huge new demand coming for basic materials, product improvements, and wole new classes of industries, that once showed promise than went into mult year hibernation, most who were caught up in the dot com craze hardly realize that many emerging small caps had rallies that lasted less than 6 months over the entire bull market. Everything is in evolution or in some cases on the verge of revolution. The damage being done by the hedgies, are the interim play between when clarity of success is known by the many instead of the few. Remember that most of the Hedge funds are under 3 years old, they were formed out of envy of the entreprenuer class and come mostly from the legal profession. There are plaenty of these that are wearing Great Big signs that say Kick ME. They dont know anything and are trusting a bunch of idiots to advise them on the fundamental currents, todays succcess is not a guarantee of tomorrows, so spin all they want. Then the liquidty game will be in full forward motion. Now those who do know; are using the backdrop to accumulate letting the hedgies do the dirty work by taking on the risk. There is a stealth bull market already; you must know the fundamentals to trade it. The marks on paper crowd, have a whole different set of problems than the fundamentalists.