The Internet marketplace is the new frontier ... Generation X hits the workplace and dress-down Fridays become the norm ... Alan Greenspan sneezes and markets tremble ... venture capital fuels entrepreneurial spirit ... the Cold War ends with Soviet collapse ... the Dow hits 10,000 and keeps climbing ... dot-com changes the economy and our vocabulary ... 43% of Americans invest in stocks ... a president is impeached, but life goes on ... Y2K anxiety runs rampant.

The market has been erratic this week.

But I'll certainly keep you in mind in case I ever take leave of my senses and decide to entrust all my savings to a complete stranger on the phone.

He just sits there all day, waiting to chase the e-mail man.

It seems they were on a conference call.