Well I did some digging around and found Jeff's book! The 1998 version and it's scary the possibility of "deja vu all over again" - he notes that there were some concerns over medical stocks due to the health care reforms proposed by the Clinton Presidency! I think that kinda deja vu we can do without, or at least that's my opinion, for the $.02 that it's worth!
What amazed me is just how much has changed in a decade. We were still in the thrall of the '90's bull, the transition to online investing wasn't quite as complete as it is now, waiting for statements... He even mentions the now venerable and several times reabsorbed Pacific Brokerage, I remember them, we'd dial-up on the modems, executing trades quickly, as there was a per-minute meter running too! They went through incarnations as Dreyfus, Brown & Co., now they've ended up as part of E*Trade for those who want the history lesson. A couple of years after Jeff's book in '98, FOLIOfn got started, an online brokerage that some of us use that combines the best of Merril Lynch's Blueprint program with the speed and ease of being online.
So thanks for the nostalgia trip and glad to see you here. We'll keep the pun-level down, well, the general humor level is always there - if we can't laugh at the foibles of life we're not living!
Enough ranting!
AIMster
