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Strategies & Market Trends : The Millennium Crash -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Arik T.G. who wrote (1496)	10/31/1997 4:27:00 PM
From: MythMan	Respond to of 5676

>>Due to unstable weather conditions crash off was postpond to next week.<< Maybe you're just all wet <g> Pete

To: Arik T.G. who wrote (1496)	11/1/1997 8:02:00 AM
From: Dwight Taylor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5676

Arik--FYI This is a discussion of a very serious Y2K problem--It is not meant as a joke. It was found here at SI, and there's plenty more like it. The cost of stamping out the so-called millennium bug could reach $830 billion worldwide, according to the Gartner Group, a Connecticut-based computer consulting firm. In Canada, de Jager predicts, the final tally could total $10 billion, with time and labor accounting for most of the money. Doomsayers predict companies will be so burdened by the expense that their stock prices will plummet and the world economy will be cast into recession. John Westergard, a U.S. technology commentator, takes the computer-chaos scenario one fantastic step further: he insists that Americans, desperate for renewed prosperity, will elect software mogul Bill Gates as president.