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From: daveb@geac.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: market crash
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Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 07:39:04 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 29 07:39:04 1987
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Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown)
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Summary: Not me, cholly!

In article <2107@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes:
>I must disagree on this.  When the crash wiped out people's
>profits, it took a lot of purchasing power with it.  We're
>not going to buy that second car now, or as quickly make other
>major purchases which we'd been contemplating. 

  I hope you mean that as a fairly restrictive "we", dave.  People
with their reserves in non-stock commodities are laughing.
  Specifically, Joyce and I went out and bought a new filing cabinet
(retail!) the day the market dove.

 --dave (swiss francs, actually) c-b
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