Cramer goes wobbly

Carl Remick cremick at rlmnet.com
Fri Aug 21 06:22:11 PDT 1998


Re Doug's quote from "former permabull" James Cramer: "These stocks trade as if someone besides the buy side has massive exposure to the pieces of paper that must be incredibly difficult to value right now. How do you value Indonesian junk bonds? How do you value Brazilian debt? Or Venezuelan debt?"

Likewise, there was an article the other day in the New York Times stating that major U.S. funds were valuing their holdings of Russian paper pretty much by pulling numbers out of the air and were totally at odds with one another. So, where's the "magic of the marketplace" now? The Invisible Hand seems to be twiddling its thumb. I don't see how these enormous dislocations can be occurring simultaneously in widely scattered global financial markets without something yet more sinister -- read: Depression -- occurring soon.

Your serve, MBS.

Carl Remick



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