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To: steve susko who wrote (43879)	12/24/2003 4:16:03 PM
From: benwood	Respond to of 74559

It takes a heck of a lot of money to cure oneself of Mad Investor Disease. No one, not Enron, not the SEC, not terrorists, not Bush, not WorldCom, not even the entire mutual fund industry has found the long sought after cure to the strain that emerged in 1997 and continues to this day. Symptoms include margin debt, war, massive current accounts deficit, tax rebates for the wealthy (which made their symptoms even worse), huge national debt. Even isolationism seems to makes symptoms worse. Greenbacks have been thought to be a cure, and the gov't has even thought of doing airdrops of a newly designed disease-fighting $20 bill in order to stop the spread. The disease has proved highly contagious and resilient and propagates on the electromagnetic waves of CNBC, in puff pieces in the newspaper, in stock forums everywhere, and in Spam. It can lie dormant in executive stock options until a outbreak of insider selling occurs. Some believe that certain jobs are incurable, and so these jobs are killed in an attempt to contain the affliction. There are rumors, continually denied by the US Gov't, that the destructive effects of the full blown disease can be reversed with small quantity of Au-197, a lustrous yellow metal. Some irrationally exuberant Americans who appear to be in full remission claim that the more they accumulated, the greater their recovery. The Federal Reserve flatly denied these statements, stating, "If that were true, would we have lent out all our supply? That would make us insane!"