[Rhodes22-list] WAR

[anima]

Wellll, in answer to your last rhetorical question....seems I
do it too regularly!
Anne



----- Original Message -----
From: "Rik Sandberg" <sanderico@earthlink.net>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] WAR


> Slim,
>
> The profits that are made by a few companies don't have a whole lot to do
> with it. It's the wages these companies pay to the larger number of people
> that are working that moves the economy.
>
> Not sure a war of this magnitude is enough to move the economy all that
> much. It probably won't be big enough, or long enough.
>
> The stock market was going to tumble some more anyway sooner or later.
This
> little burp was no surprise. This war talk just acted like a trigger.
Check
> any chart you want. The trend is still downward and probably will be for a
> while yet. Don't believe all that recovery talk you hear on Bloomberg or
> CSNBC. The guys that are supposedly the "expert advisors" on those
programs
> are also the guys that make a living by brokering you some stock. Of
course
> they want you to think the market is going back up. You wouldn't buy (go
> long) stocks if you thought they were going down, would you?
>
> Rik
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Alm" <salm@mn.rr.com>
> To: "Rhodes" <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 4:48 PM
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] WAR
>
>
> > Just the "jitters" of war have tumbled the stock market.  Explain to me
> > again how a war will boost our economy???  It costs zillions to send in
> the
> > troops and zillions more to rebuild what we are about to destroy.  Is
this
> > really offset by the profits that are made by the few companies that
> produce
> > munitions, food, clothing, hardware, supplies, fuel, etc.???
> >
> > Am I missing something here?
> >
> > Slim
> >
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