To: TobagoJack who wrote (3403 ) 1/15/2006 3:59:30 PM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 217896 TJ, lonngggg ago, my Dow 16,000 prediction was based not simply on the USA continuing to do well economically, but on financial relativity theory as Helicopter Ben, aka Big Ben, and predecessor Uncle Al [at the time not KBE which he got AFTER throwing money from helicopters] have shown they intend to use and Uncle Al had been using for decades. The pixelation process got out of kilter with the biotelecosmictechdot.com productivity boom so there was a Y2K glitch. However, we are warping up to hyperdrive speeds and financial relativity theory is performing as predicted, with China maths and India software cloaking the process in an air of normalcy, with King George II spending world record amounts of money in December as though there's no tomorrow [which, since he's one of the Armageddon acolytes, there might not be, even if it's left to chickens to do the dirty work]. Your take on the situation is correct, but your conclusion wrong, [I hope]. Americans will suddenly decide to revive the age-old verities of virtue. Notice how gold, QCOM, land, and other long-value things have gone up in perceived value as measured by the shrivelled USD which has weirdly not shrunk in other vital ways, such as pay rates, due to the productivity miracle of China, India and Biotelecosmictechdot.com rulz. It's true that non-productive financial engineering profit is financial entropy in financial relativity theory, dragging the system. But in the absence of competition, [which I must get working on], it doesn't matter for the people doing the pixelation and pocketing of profits. I'm not at all surprised that they enjoy harvesting the money tree for themselves, after all, they invented it and own it. As long as they don't get greedy [which they have] they can keep the game going for a long time, or until competitors eat their lunch. Mqurice