Re: Hey guys, can you help me out over here?


"Shortwave Sportfishing" <onetwothree@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:54:30 -0500, "P Fritz"
> <paulfritzNOSPAMFORME@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Shortwave Sportfishing" <onetwothree@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:15:01 -0500, Harry Krause
>>> <harry.krause@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> >Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
>>> >> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:37:42 -0500, "Bert Robbins" <screw@xxxxxxx>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>> "Shortwave Sportfishing" <onetwothree@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> >>> news:9mdoo11smenhqtlfqg8p4lt18mqibh0k5e@xxxxxxxxxx
>>> >>>
>>> >>>> As a side note, why do you post through Google?
>>> >>>> Tom
>>> >>> Tom, do you want a gmail account invite? if yes send me a message
at
>>> >>> brobbins (at) erols (dot) com with your e-mail address and I'll
send
>>you an
>>> >>> invite.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks anyway, but I'll pass. I'm on an anti-Google kick at the
>>> >> moment. I'm waiting for the stock to drop to 26 and ruin the
>>> >> portfolios of a bunch of people when it hits 500 and everybody
>>> >> realizes that the price/earnings ratio is absurd and that they are
>>> >> holding nothing more than a bunch of computers and intrusive
>>> >> information on everybody in the world.
>>> >>
>>> >> It's going to happen and I think it's going to happen in the next
year
>>> >> or so.
>>> >>
>>> >> I'll be giggling all the way to the bank. :>)
>>> >
>>> >Stock prices have nothing to do with reality.
>>>
>>> No - really?!?!?!?
>>>
>>> Wow - what a revelation.
>>>
>>> And is pretty much what I said.
>>
>>It has everything to do with reality....simply a matter of supply and
>>demand.........and when the demand drops, so will the price.
>
> It's more complicated than that.

Not really.

> Markets are generated by want, not
> need.

It still comes down to supply and demand......there are 'x' number of
stock shares, and 'y' number of buyers for those shares.

> Most markets are based on goods and services, but in trading
> stocks and bonds, the market is not as much based in reality as in
> perception.

The 'reality' is people wanting those shares........nobody ever said
anything about that 'want' being rational

> Google is a diaster waiting to happen.

No ***

> It's already
> represents about 1/3 of the market base and when the bubble bursts,
> you'd see post-911 price index's all over again. In truth, the demand
> is based on nothing more than an idea that Google is worth more than
> the building it's sits in. It doesn't make anything, it's worth is
> only an idea and concept.
>
> It will collapse.

Really.....say it isn't so :-)

>
>>Now the truely "detached from reality" item was the "Pet Rock"
>
> Or the Hula Hoop, the Popiel Pocket Fisherman and Hair in A Can.
>
>>But then, someone laughed all the way to the bank on that one.
>
> Ron Popiel in fact. :>)

Oh.....I forgot "beanie babies" and cabbage patch kids.

>
> Later,
>
> Tom


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