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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike M2 who wrote (44958)	1/29/1999 2:19:00 PM
From: Bonnie Bear	Respond to of 132070

A thing I find odd...if you look at the chart of SWINX...international index fund..we have about the same amount of money in global equities that we did at the start of the asia crisis..but clearly the existing money has been redistributed out of midcap value, smallcap value, commodities, foreign stocks, reits, etc, into about ten U.S. stocks and their key stock holdings. It's as though everything else was shorted to make money to prop them up. So the question to the thread is, could a collusion of companies do this by spending all their cash flow to buy index options? The creation of the internet companies appears to me to be fabricated companies created expressly as bogus money to settle index derivatives contracts...if one wanted to prolong it, then increased cash flow via sales of products to bogus "plant expansions" would be the way to do it. Hmmm.. we're in really deep kimshee...