"J. van Baardwijk" wrote:
>
> At 19:11 29-1-02 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
>
> >Current 10-day moving average: 73 messages/day. We're on a fairly steady
> >upward trend that started around 11/24/01, after a decline that had begun
> >9/14/01. Eyeballing the chart for periodicity, it looks like we have a
> >roughly one-month cycle of excitation, to use a term of art.
> >
> >I don't see any obvious correlation to the stock market... ;-)
>
> Patience, Nick -- you will get your correlation later. Just wait till the
> stock market crashes again and all those Brinellers that put their live
> savings in shares start crying about how many thousands of dollars they
> suddenly lost... :-)
Speaking of which, I've been sort of surprised that no one has been
talking about the whole Enron mess here yet.
Julia
whose household's portfolio is a lot more diversified than that of many
former Enron employees