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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dan Ross who wrote (282)	1/7/1998 12:51:00 AM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18691

Dan; I do not question Jimmy Rogers as being smart , or Soro, I simple question their scruples. Just as I question and examine the recomendations and up grades and down grades that all these hot shot brokerages put out. I also save, sort and track a good deal of them, and I tell you there is no way they could do worse if they were blindfolded and tossing darts at a dartboard. Why it's ludicrist that people are so dumb as to belive that these big money boys are making holy proncements so as to be doing the public a favor. Most of them are smart, but they are also the most talented, polished and artistic liars amoung us. They can even beat the politicians in that area. I will agree with you, the market is over priced, companies can never produce the sort of real profit, that justifies the money that is invested in them. But that has little to do with how high it goes. It's a big slot machine and people want to play, in fact right now they seem to have nothing better to do with their money. :-) But sir just why should interest rates be 6.25%, what moral or or other grounds says so. Why and how could every one live off bond yealds, nice idea but who would work ? I belive there should be a law that prevents any one charging another person over 3% on any kind of loan. Had that been in place all along we would not have half the problems we now face. ------------------------------ I do agree if rates go back up, it will set the stock market on it's butt. But I don't see any thing like the fall you do. That kind of fall would wipe out most pension funds, and the money market funds as well. They can't let it happen and expect anything less than having to run for their lives. Don't forget it was not so long ago the Goverment almost shut down, and the big money boys were worried sick that we would not be able to fund the intrest on our national dept. I can assure you they will accept lower rates rather than see that. Jim

To: Dan Ross who wrote (282)	1/7/1998 1:34:00 AM
From: craig crawford	Respond to of 18691

<< I beg to differ...I think Jimmy Rogers is one smart guy.... >> If you are interested in Jim Rogers I started a thread about him. Subject 18756

To: Dan Ross who wrote (282)	1/9/1998 10:07:00 AM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18691

Dan; Have you looked at the Flood of new Junk Bonds on the market, They pay more interest than the long bond and are being snaped up by mutuall bond funds. I think this is absorbing a lot of cash that would run into equities and causing a de-coupleing of equity prices from the long bond. A lot of new dept is for sale, at rates above goverment rates. With the turmoil in Asia, "Foreigners" are the bigest buyers of our government dept. Were is this going ? Jim