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To: EdR who wrote (57422)	4/22/2006 6:44:41 PM
From: Rande Is	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 57584

Ed, I don't know what they all do, as some are more obviously attractive than others. But any list we make should include Asia, India and other previous third world areas. This is by no means a complete list. Many funds have odd names. But the idea is that you locate "mutual funds" that trade on the NYSE like a stock. APB, GRR, GHI, GIF, IF, JFC, KEF, IIF, APF, TFC, TRF, TF, BZF, TDF, CH, CHN, ISL, GCH, IFN, KF, LAQ, LDF, MF, MXE, SGF, TWN, TKF. The advantage is that you can go in and out without fees. . . nothing up front or at the back. (No, I have not checked every stock on the list as to how it trades). . . Yet, you still are entitled to dividends. If you want to get blown away, look at 2 year charts on this group. Some have been on a tear for 5 years. Others have just started up in the past year. Either way, I am finding these "traded funds" (at least that's what I call them) have consistently outperformed U.S. equities. But the best part is the dividends. If America's politicians were the tiniest bit honest, I'd be interested in an American speculative technologies growth fund. . .that included fuel cells, alternate fuels, nanotechnology, genomes, and so many other promising cutting edge technologies. But I no longer believe such technologies are as promising (for altogether other reasons). New technologies do not necessarily serve the best interests of the politically and socially elite. This group pulls the strings for the rest of us. Since some of these new technologies upset the apple cart. . .they are not needed. Not until ways are found to squeeze out the juice (money). America shelves its most promising technologies so as not to compete with existing ones that are extremely profitable to a select few. Little to no regard is given to middle or lower classes. Consequently, such "exciting new technologies" have little chance of ever seeing the light of day. We have never moved past the Tucker. By now, we should be running cars on grass, trash, hydrogen, carbon. . . anything in great supply. For goodness sake, the NASA plan to go to Mars is designed on the contingency that astronauts can "create fuel" from whatever they find on the planet. Otherwise, they have no way to get home. America has everything it needs to stay great and stay the global leader for decades to come. It is simply choosing not to compete. Rande Is PS> I don't find either political party working in my best interest, therefore this post has no particular political slant. Regarding stocks listed above, please do your own DD.