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To: geode00 who wrote (163720)	6/5/2005 11:24:06 PM
From: Keith Feral	Respond to of 281500

There is such an abundance of information that it is impossible for anyone to trust the market. I may trust the information from a balance sheet in a blue chip company but choose to ignore the information. I could have invested all of my money in CSCO back in 1990 and become a billionare. I didn't do it then and I wouldn't do it now. That does not mean that I do not trust the information. I am suspicious of all information which leads to fear. All decisions are a function of fear or greed. That is why unity is not obtainable. We have the free will to try whatever we want. When you look at the extraordinary success of the capital markets in the US, you can only grimace with pain that you did not make all of the right decisions. Buy and hold is great for people like Buffett that make one decision investments for well managed companies. Short term strategies may work out well for trading types like Soros that trade against the imbalances of the global financial system in commodities, stocks, and bonds. It does not matter if you trust the information or not. Free will is an inevitable part of human nature that leads to a never ending process of decisions. That is why unity is doomed as an evolutionary state of society. If you were to equally redistribute all wealth and harmony, it would only restart the process of free will. It would not negate the mangement of resources - financial or otherwise. In this respect, I question the logic of cyber intelligence that might give way to an elevated structure of society. We are all responsible for our own condition through education, religion, politics, relationships and all factors that define our perspective on life.