[This is the captain’s speaking. Flight SP 500 destined for … ops … we appear to be off our originally intended flight path, and we can not seem to pull up our Wintel powered PC map … we will clear this up in a moment, maybe by doing a mid-air installation of a SUNW server and perform an ORCL cold boot, or maybe by finding the one faulty chip amongst the thousands on our MU memory array. We are not anywhere near any airport big enough to handle the landing of planes our size, and our destined airport on the coast appears to have the runway lights powered off due to late payment of utility bills. The Bridge Financial air traffic control appears to be also going bust at an inopportune time, and many Internet financial sites may have to sign expensive contracts with Reuters instead. That was the good news. More emphatically, we will not land, hard or soft, at all.

Our companion chartered flight NASDAQ 1400 is currently circling in place as medical doctors from MSDW, GS and MER are administering emergency procedures to passengers AKAM, HGSI and ICGE. NASDAQ is not circling in place because of these procedures, but because the engines INTC and CSCO are sputtering with noises that were not originally specified by the manufacturers. I guess they should not have disassembled the third engine MSFT in mid-air to fix a problem that wasn’t, as it sure would come in handy right about now.

Um, I see by the radar that another problem is developing to NASDAQ 1400. Flight DOW 6000 is on a diametrically opposed and intersecting course with NASDAQ 1400’s holding path. I will keep you informed on this. Look out on the politically left side for possible fireworks, and right side for possible missile testing. That was the bad news … we may simply explode in mid-air, to be followed by congressional hearings on the causes of the explosion.

We have been lowering the Interest Rate temperature to save the performance of two of our four overheated engines, BAC and PGE, but I have just received an alert message that our fuel, the Dollar, is contaminated with paint chips, and these chips will tend to aggregate in lumps as the Interest Rate temperature continues to drop. Heating up the fuel tank is not an option as it will worsen the other two of our already troubled engines, GE and GM.

The alternative synthetic fuel (the Dollar) that we are using is so far better than the $30/barrel oil and natural gas. Engineer Greenspan can make as much of it available as he sees fit, and it cost nothing except a bit of confidence and a bit of tricks. Mid-air fuel replenishment is possible at the drop of an FOMC meeting. Mid-air fuel system change is not so far an option, until we have no other choices left.

Engineers Greenspan and Bush are trying to work out the problems, and it is currently fashionable to expect Bush’s tax cut to do what Greenspan’s interest rate cut could not. I do not want to alarm anyone, but should the trick with tax cut also fail to work, all bets are off and we will not be able to dawdle at this altitude for very much longer. If the stewardesses inform you that interest rate decrease works with a six-month lag, believe it at your own risk. If you believe that tax cut works even while in the formulating phase, go buy yourself another SUV.

Engineer Greenspan is from the old school that believes money supply and hot air cure all ills, and Bush is from the daring-do world of oil and Texas, the state that taught all how it should be done with a bang. Should they fail, put in your order to buy $ 8k apartments, as the Texans were able to not so long ago.

To improve our chances for survival … eh I did not mean that … our chances to pull through the valley, we may have to jettison some passengers, starting with 75 thousand here and 26 thousand there. Please do not forget to remember, if we jettison your neighbor, it is only a recession, and if we do you, it is a depression, at least for you. As you watch you neighbors gets dragged to the cabin door without a parachute, please do not forget to follow our FED governor’s advise, buy some in-flight merchandise and thus better your chances to remain on Flight SP 500. SUVs are our recommended purchase at this moment.

There is a limited supply of platinum colored parachutes available on board and as these are not enough for all passengers, a premium is required. First class passengers will of course have first puts as they may have to make their way to the coming congressional hearings. The gold colored chutes may or may not work properly this time, but more assuredly than landing in Amazon.com. The rest of us will have to put our full faith in Greenspan and Bush, the mutually admiring non-elected buddies.

Confidence and faith are fragile. Money is good, more better than less, now better than later, in my pocket better than in others. All other economic theories and laws can be derived from these simple truths.]

The movie can have everything... drama, intrigue, politics, explosions, and maybe even sex down the road

Gefunden im Silicon Investor

mfg

Pancho

<center>

<HR>

</center>