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To: GST who wrote (39866)	2/13/1999 2:29:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Care to guess what Americans save? If you guessed nothing you are close. I keep hearing that and Im wondering what they include in the definition of "saving". Does it include any investments - stock market, etc? This is just too difficult to believe. For example, anybody that forgoes salary in exchange for stock (which is in essence everyone in a small high tech company, even if it is already public in some cases) - is in a way "saving". Im a little sensitive to these arcane measurements of wealth that the government has. Kind of like how they restrict things like the Roth IRA to those with lower incomes and yet business owners and many wealthy people can restrict their income such that they can participate - whereas the working parent with 2 kids earning 100K can not. Michelle Edit: whoops sorry for the off topic but its Saturday

To: GST who wrote (39866)	2/14/1999 12:03:00 AM
From: HG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

GST & IceShark The problem with you intelligent guys is that you guys think all females are stupid.......and are meant to be humored. Well, maybe the ladies you have encountered may be that way, but believe me lots of us out there are not... :-) so it might be better for you to "understand" (or ask for) the meaning behind the statements...... ;-) All intelligent investors believe in asset allocation. Their portfolios are divided into categories with varying amount of risk. Even if 100% of my savings were invested in stock markets, which they arent, for I hold a large part of my savings in real estate internationally, but even if they were, on the average, stock market has historically returned 11%.... A portfolio held thru the crash of 1929, and thru 1987, STILL shows returns of 11%......I merely quoted a historical statistic. BTW, even if one held on to a bunch of dogs, historically, even the poorest performers return 4% on the average. Now even if AMZN went bankrupt, histroically speaking, all portfolios employing efficient asset allocation strategies would average out to 11% thru a buy and hold strategy, and efficient asset allocation strategies. Hope this helps. PS : All data quoted from Prudential research...