To: TobagoJack who wrote (19114 ) 6/1/2007 9:34:13 PM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 220604 TJ, those were your words. Mine were a little more circumspect. I did copy/paste them to give you a boost. Of course, as you know from experience, you are sometimes wrong. And, you find out AFTERWARDS that you were wrong. Until afterwards, you think you are right. My more balanced words: <Not just SI hard drive. I have remembered many posts and you have indeed been quite right. My favourite, which I scrutinized at the time and since, was the list of events to happen. I liked and here it is, "another GM SUV line shuts". Also, GE has recalculated profits. Note that I did not disagree at the time with said sentiments. I will add that you have been righter than me. Much righter than me [in many respects]. My biggie was that I really didn't think, with Uncle Al having successfully escaped my feared cascading collapse into deflationary financial oblivion [worried about and discussed in SI with jfred in the late 1990s during irrational exuberance], that the trough would be so deep or so long. And STILL not finished. Until the housing imbalance in balanced and the USD interest rates are right back up out of Happy Meal status, there is still implosionary risk. But at least the event horizon of deflationary implosion into black hole financial abyss was avoided during the biotelecosmictechdot.com market clearing. Now we still need to have financial relativity theory correct the relationship among incomes, rents and house prices. Which is not a slam dunk. But, I remain hopeful [rather than complacent] that Big Ben will complete what our great and estimable idol Uncle Al KBE has left as a legacy. In Sudoku games, it would rate "very hard". I am positioned for a successful escape back up to hyper speed, away from the lurking event horizon and black hole. > And the successful escape took place. Mqurice