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

To: Michael Bakunin who wrote (60022)	5/20/1999 2:24:00 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Anyone: I can't find a site that tells the total margin debt outstanding, though I seem to remember seeing such figures reported. I can see how it would be impossible get a good estimate on individual stock margin positions and debt. Short sales are tied to a speicifc stock, whereas margin is fungible, if that's the word, and can be applied to all sorts of transactions whenever a debt balance is outstanding. Probably margin figures appear in Barrons but I don't have one with me.

To: Michael Bakunin who wrote (60022)	5/20/1999 10:10:00 PM
From: Fred B.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 132070

MB, At least, I have not resorted to name calling yet. <g> My prediction of %5 yield by the end of the year is based on my belief that inflation is still dead (or as us "ignorant" folks would like to say :we be no see inflation!!!) CRB is still at its lowest level in decades. So is gold. In times of inflationary pressures, the market would have soaked up all the gold the bank of England wants to sell and the price would have still gone up. Moreover, there is overcapacity everywhere. It is funny that the same bears who point to high yields (due directly to inflationary fears, and break of key technical support levels) as the harbinger of the upcoming crash, were predicting deflation and and a severe recession, and therefore a crash, only last October. In other words, in their thinking,only a 75 basis point FED rate cut brought us from the verge of deflation and worldwide recession to an overheating economy and inflation. They were wrong then and are wrong now!!! Fred