This morning, the links at the website of the October 13 testimonies to the Senate Y2K Committee were links to PDF documents. They are now links to HTML documents.

http://www.senate.gov/~y2k/hearings/991013/

-- Lane Core Jr. (elcore@sgi.net), October 14, 1999

Answers

The links are all now .htm except for Nick Gogerty's testimony on global finance which is still in .pdf format.

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), October 14, 1999.

Great. Gegerty's was the most damning. Gotta keep that locked up in PDF locked files so that .005% of the public will see it.

-- Dog Gone (layinglow@rollover.now), October 14, 1999.

Gogerty made a very important point:

No matter whether Y2K = BITR or Y2K = TEOTWAWKI; the global $1 Trillion US dollar per day foreign exchange trading cannot tolerate any settlement delays. Therefore, the money managers will take premptive action and seek safe havens prior to Y2K: flight to quality; flight to liquidity; credit tightened; flight to physical assets; etc.

Based on this it seems a recession is inevitable as our best case scenario - eliminating anything on the 1-4 scale of Webster's Y2K impact scenarios.

If you doubt this read the global finance addendum and check out the graphic on page 34.

-- Bill P (porterwn@one.net), October 14, 1999.