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- LETTERS, Page 4Wall Street Tumble
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- The Dow Jones industrial average's 190-point drop on Friday
- the 13th (BUSINESS, Oct. 23) has precipitated a deluge of
- hypotheses, explanations and guesses by financiers, money
- managers, economists and strategists. The sell-off is attributed
- to computer-driven sales, the fall-through of the UAL buyout,
- circuit breakers, junk-bond defaults, declining interest rates
- and economic slowdown. The plunge is just an adjustment. Bargain
- hunters will drive the prices up while the problems remain. What
- really happened is that the greedy ran out of suckers to take
- the paper off their hands at a higher price.
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- Herbert Bernstein Miami Beach
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