Pollies will henceforth be called Bulls.

Doomers will henceforth be called Bears.

The name of the board will become Time Bomb 2000? The Bears think it will go off; the Bulls think not.

I'll be a Bear.

-- Me (me@me.me), January 11, 2000

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Time Warner Merger Wows Asian Markets

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Merger mania gripped key Asian markets on Tuesday, pushing Japanese shares up over three percent and Australian stocks to record highs after AOL bought Time Warner Inc in the world's largest merger.

-- (Also@a.bear), January 11, 2000.

Actually, I was wondering if there is a stock market discussion area similar to this board -- by which I mean its sense of community and inherent skepticism of TPTB and the New Market mania. If this board goes through that metamophasis, I'd be happy to ride along. Also, does anyone know of a national defense related discussion area that might welcome a dovish hawk who remains intensely suspicious of events in Russia, China, and the Middle East, the kind of place where Nikoli might show up occasionally to discuss the ramifications of EMP attacks?

-- Cash (cash@andcarry.com), January 11, 2000.

Let us not. I don't have any stocks or investments and could care less what the markets does. Don't appropriate this forum. Start your own.

-- anon (anon@anon.calm), January 11, 2000.

Cash,

LOL!

1. a stock market discussion area similar to this board -- Yes! TB2000

2. sense of community and inherent skepticism of TPTB and the New Market mania---Yes! TB2000

3. a national defense related discussion area that might welcome a dovish hawk who remains intensely suspicious of events in Russia, China, and the Middle East---Yes! TB2000

4., the kind of place where Nikoli might show up occasionally to discuss the ramifications of EMP attacks---Yes! TB2000

Stick around...

-- (RUOK@yesiam.com), January 11, 2000.

Well, we should change the name to WORLDWATCH 2000. I,m enjoying every minute of it.

-- Tommy Rogers (Been there@Just a Thought.com), January 11, 2000.

This forum has always been about investments -- just not investments in the stock markets.

Years ago John Pugsley laid out investment strategies. The primary investment was to invest in things you use -- stock up. Then invest in a place to live -- buy land and housing. After you've finished with that you can think about savings, stock market, etc.

-- Dean -- from (almost) Duh Moyn (dtmiller@midiowa.net), January 11, 2000.

I'm bullish on a bear market.

-- A (A@AisA.com), January 11, 2000.

Cash,
You might check at Free Republic
They have a more political slant to the National defense issues.
Quite a few people monitor and post in both forums.

-- Possible Impact (posim@hotmail.com), January 11, 2000.

I've had it.

IMO, this is 1928 all over again.

Why?

All the HYPE.

Who, whooooooooooo?, may I ask wants Interactive TeeVee??

Stupid! Dumb!

People want the Internet -- not a miserable digitized home shopping network.

Everything has become so crassly commercialized online. All over the place. I'm sick of ads, I'm sick of cons, I'm sick of shills, and most of all, I am sick and tired of all those who believe that businesses founded on IRRATIONAL principles, run by what often looks like symptoms of clinical mania, and always always ferociously out to make yet another billion will last. IMO, they ain't gonna last.

In response to the AOL/Time-Warner merger, I predict that the public will thumb their noses at the New Media Giant, and stubbornly support their little local ISPs, and in reaction to all the general glitz-hype about e-commerce, I foresee that people will start shopping in their immediate local community at brick & mortar retail establishments.

Thanks for the tip about that book about delusions and financial markets.

-- (nobody@nowhere.com), January 11, 2000.

Me:

Are you holding to your early prediction of the NASDAQ tanking this week? Do you think Comeau has in inkling of what may be about to fall?

I sense a mood of confidence in the stock market. People don't believe the government officials will allow Wall Street to crash. They won't, so it can't. Therefore, buy on the dips.

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), January 11, 2000.

I agree w/RUOK.

Y2K is about the Year 2000 not January 1, 2000; not about orchestrated glitz and glamor staged events from around the world; not about a Bump in the Road... It is Day 11+ and reports of failuires are still coming in with more expected - way too early to call and definetly not yet over.

Have you got your January paycheck cut, mailed and deposited yet.

-- Bill P (porterwn@one.net), January 11, 2000.

My first January check was deposited in my bank account on time. (The advice, which should have included only this check in the Y-T-D column, however, included all of 1999 as well! Just an accounting SNAFU... So at least one company is working normally...

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), January 11, 2000.

I don't recall predicting the NASDAQ going in the tank this week *unless* last week was miseable through and through. It wasn't. A big artificial rally on Friday saved the day. But only the day.

We're back at it this week.

Need a week of losses to begin the migration (aka "herd moving").

Once it starts, *really* starts, it will be unstoppable.

-- Me (me@me.me), January 11, 2000.

Me:

I'm sorry for misunderstanding your prediction.

Well, we haven't have a solid week of losses this week due to Monday's AOL-TimeWarner pop-out-of-the-cake merger, so maybe it'll start next week. Or maybe the market will reach a NEW high. Or just maybe Comeau's got something there...

Fleckenstein mentioned the Intel report on Thursday would be an important indicator.

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), January 11, 2000.

RUOK:

LOL indeed. I see you caught my point, er, pun, whatever. But I was also serious, in the perhaps mistaken belief that sooner or later Phil Greenspun will decide to close down this site as no longer needed for the topic for which it was originally created. I hope not -- Greenspun hosts a raft of other forums on wildly different topics -- because I find here a unique community. Snooze Button's amazingly popular thread on the nature of truth proves that. It also makes the point that forums such as this one are one of the few ways we can get an approximation of the truth about events that has not be whitewashed in the popular press. The reports both pro and con from the Seattle WTO protests being a good example.

-- Cash (cash@andcarry.com), January 12, 2000.