<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML>   Max Sawicky wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>  <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff solid 2px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE = CITE>If Greenspan were do die in Andrea Mitchell's passionate embrace this evening, Mark Jones would probably win his 3,000 Dow bet by the close tomorrow.</BLOCKQUOTE> I haven't agreed a bet yet - Sawicky did not mention a price (whatever it is I'll pay him off at the rate of one kilo of dried roubles per $1,000). My prediction is based on the fact that the Nikkei, according to the FT today, lost 60+% of its value after the Japanese bubble burst. The same fall in the Dow would bring it to 3000.     Payment in roubles would be two bets, or maybe three. I'll take good old imperialist dollars, thank you very much.</BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Naturally I was assuming (a) the dollar will collapse (b) postcapitalist Russian  roubles will hold their nominal value. But I'm happy to make it a case of Lagavulin which I will give you if the DJI is above 3k this day next year, you me if not. Soglasno? Mark</HTML>