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To: William H Huebl who wrote (40026)	5/16/1999 9:54:00 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

From my Chicken page - Day Traders - Market speculation - Most recent example of irrational stock buying is IBM. Louis Gerstner of IBM started touting his company as an Internet play - net result the stock went from $220 to $245 for no other reason than speculation. IBM's market capitalization grew by $25 billion just for a nice story and prep talk ?? - there were no new financial facts or better earnings prediction JUST SPECULATION!! Those $25 billion in added valuation can account for several countries GDP or about 5 to 6 weeks of money flow into the US mutual funds. To make some sense of the irrational market behavior - Poland with a population of 38 million has a yearly budget of $34 billion and national debt of $43 billion. Austria with a $21,000 per capita GDP has a national debt of $30 billion similar to Belgium national debt of $31 billion and Denmark's national debt of of $44 billion (sources the CIA World Fact Book). Does their government "prep talk" eliminate their outstanding debt in two days??? Well I do not think so. BWDIK Haim bway.net

To: William H Huebl who wrote (40026)	5/18/1999 9:13:00 AM
From: Skeet Shipman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Bill, Our first real indication of slowing, housing starts down. We'll just have to keep a watch on retail sales. Skeet (Comment : Economists and their theories have the image of being somewhat dry; even so, before the PPI & CPI the market seemed to approve of Summers. He appears appropriate for this period when cooperative mechanisms may need to be established and funded for reassessing global/regional issues in economic theory. Appreciating that theory changes with changes of perspective is important. One perspective of economic development is in the question: What are the constraints and opportunities for expanding economic multipliers in an economy and region?)