<HTML>In a message dated 7/17/2002 11:50:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jbdelong@uclink.berkeley.edu writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">This piece of spam from thestreet.com might well qualify as a signal that the bottom is near: when the attention-grabbing headline is not "9 stocks that will double in value" but "17 big-name stocks you MUST SELL now," bear-market psychology must be near its maximum possible value... Brad DeLong </BLOCKQUOTE> That would be true if it weren't for the fact that everything that emanates from thestreet.com is purely random. Nomi</HTML>