I agree 100% with antilizzie, except that I did not expect the news to do much today for NOT, because of the current market sentiment, and because the news was arguably baked into the cake.

More importantly, I do think it is important that both franz and d12 stick around. As I have written before, this medium of communication is prone to miscommunication, since different readers can interpret the same words differently depending on mood and mindset, and also because the writers may have certain things in mind when writing that are not alsways conveyed in the words they write leaving the reader without the full viewpoint of the writer.

Not to mention that we all have filters to our minds that are tuned slightly differently, so when looking at, or reading the same things, many of us do not always see or interpret them the same way. That is why people can and do disagree about many things - they see and interpret them differently.

However, that is also of value to us on this forum because we get to hear different many different interpretations or viewpoints that allow us to consider a broad spectrum of opinion on any many subjects, which helps us to draw more informed and/or valid conclusions about various issue/subjects, and also draw our attention to things we may have overlooked.

It seems that there is a lot of emotion right now... Markets are tough, and we are all on the edge of our seats waiting for the MFL story to unfold. However, as other posters have mentioned, we need to cooler heads to prevail, and we need ALL continue posting quality thoughts, questions, observations, and speculations so tthat the value of this forum is not diminished - the more one-sided and narrow it becomes, the less value it has.

Sincerely,

B.