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To: yard_man who wrote (11014)	12/11/1997 4:04:00 PM
From: Joan Osland Graffius	Respond to of 18056

Barry, >But this bull dies hard. I agree, if we enter a bear market this bull will die a slow death. I have been looking at some of my books here looking for an example of this. Maybe 1962, kind of a slow slide. Joan

To: yard_man who wrote (11014)	12/11/1997 4:12:00 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18056

Actually lower interest rates are already here. The 30-year treasury hit 6% today, which seems like a pretty fair level even if you were designing an economic utopia. I'll try not to mention it again, but I am very pleased at having put over half my wife's IRA into treasury strips when they were yielding about 6.7 % not too long ago; they have appreciated about 14%, I think and if rates drop another one percent they's go up another 20% plus the appreciation of the basic interest as maturity approaches. And as safe as anything made of paper can be.