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To: Challo Jeregy who wrote (5622)	2/7/1999 3:46:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 99985

Challo; Computer glitch aside; I'm more concerned about how they beat the Tom Toms on earnings and such, reports that can subject to creative skewing. I find the news pundits, say little about cooperate debt, at least in a collective way. So while the anal-cyst seem to look at all types of indicators, do you know of any place we can get the historic & relative Debt levels of the companies in the S&P 500. ? Big falls can be said to come from many things, over supply of goods , or money seem to be the favorite villains that the pundits use. But I'm convinced that excessive cooperate Debt ( and the interest on it ) is the primary burden that brings things down. The coupling may be more extended than other things we normally look at, as the reality can be glossed over in so many ways , but I get nervous when I start seeing companies borrowing money to buy back their stock, and not paying down their debt. Jim