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Year 2000 crisis causes crash

An SI Board Since May 1997

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Emcee: Mel Spivak	Type: Unmoderated

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There is a newsletter writer, Gary North who argues that there is not enough time to fix the Y2K problems. As people worry that everything will be messed up in banks, ins co, other fin'l institutions, Soc Sec, IRS, etc., they will cause "the mother of all bank runs" and eveything will crash. How "real" is this senario?? Mel

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13	Marcos, that article sums it up well. Whichever institutions do not have in pl	Mel Spivak	-	5/28/1997
12	Just passing through here, and remembered this article this morning (Globe and	marcos	-	5/28/1997
11	SEEC is a Y2K stock that has doubled in the last few weeks. In case anyone'	Richard Karpel	-	5/23/1997
10	<<i>on the govt call your local rep to get the respecitve report on th	freeus	-	5/23/1997
9	Good idea. To expound on that, call the Info Tech Dept of each of the financial	Mel Spivak	-	5/23/1997
8	That "panic" newsletter said to write to all your money-holding compa	freeus	-	5/22/1997
7	I ignore VSE stocks. Another Y2K candidate is WALK Walker Interactive. DDIM	Mel Spivak	-	5/20/1997
6	On the year 2000 stocks: I will look into BTGI and UCMP. ACLY though has alread	freeus	-	5/20/1997
5	Don't "poo-poo" this scenario. The conversion and testing is exp	Mel Spivak	-	5/19/1997
4	Hi Mel. I doubt that the scarey scenario will occur, but I sure am investigatin	freeus	-	5/18/1997
3	Scarey senario. Worry .... panic .... will this occur ??	Mel Spivak	-	5/18/1997
2	Hi Mel, I got that advertisement in the mail today too. I wonder, I had heard v	freeus	-	5/16/1997
1	It is a 24 page newsletter its says He'll send you 10 copies for $20 . 1-80	Mel Spivak	-	5/15/1997

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