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To: Rolla Coasta who wrote (9140)	9/10/2006 1:22:46 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217642

MM, I'm not suggesting things are bad or that there is a stampede underway. On the contrary. I'm quite sanguine among the gloom and doom and goldster Aztecs running around chanting mystical incantations of the end of the world or at least the end of the world as we know it, clutching their little totems. Sure, as always, plenty of people are losing their shirts, as usual. Sometimes it'll be houses, sometimes it'll be during terrorist explosions, sometimes due to burglaries. As you say, oil and plenty of other prices can rise quickly, such as bananas in Australia after an agricultural disaster in bananaland. The sudden price changes I was meaning were those from speculators/investors getting in and out of various things. When the herd ties to get through a doorway simultaneously, they tend to pile up. Panic is a far greater motivator to desperate high speed action than is greed. Even when there's a really good greed rush, people try to retain an air of dignity. When there is panic, they don't worry about putting on a dignified manner. They'll cry and shriek, push, shove, punch and do anything to save their hide. They apologize later to those who they trampled, if those trampled are still alive. Mqurice