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To: SamAdams76
Remember when at the height of the dot.com era, there was a new,form of psycological problem, called "affluenza", the guilt of having too much money, from the dot.com bonanza. I remember Rush, going ballistic about it. I was doing the same basically. I remember one guy saying he was happier, living in a dank, dark studio apartment, than living in some fancy condo. I wonder how he is doing now?
3 posted on 05/28/2002 7:08:14 PM PDT by mlibertarianj
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To: mlibertarianj
During the dot-com era, there was an even more serious form of a psychological problem called "financial idiocy." I heard it manifested a few times in callers to a financial talk-radio show who insisted to the host that from that day forward a company's earnings would no longer be a factor in its stock price.

"You heard it right there, folks," the host said (and you could almost see him shaking his head), "and you wonder why I am advising all of my listeners to cash out of this dot-com nonsense right now?"

5 posted on 05/28/2002 7:13:26 PM PDT by Alberta's Child
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To: mlibertarianj
Probably went bust and is living in a cheap studio apartment, thinking about how much he misses his fancy condo and wishing he weren't such an idiot.
7 posted on 05/28/2002 7:57:27 PM PDT by Ken H
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