of a bunch of crooks, frauds, and especially those who got burned owning the old, say, fannie mae or lehman brothers an unwillingness to believe anything positive is something else entirely. if you're going to own stocks, you need to be willing to extend some measure of trust to people who own the companies that you own shares of. what else could be going on? we had a massive amount of consolidation of late. airlines, rental cars, entertainment. perhaps these executives are buying stock because they hear the footsteps. maybe they've been contacted by some other company to turn that company down spur overtures happen all the time executives expect they may be next it could be a healthy, honest reason to buy. a lot of times you can just get a phone call and say, no, bye. they do that, because the company is worth more than they thought. maybe they think the company can be broken up like the old tyco. maybe the ability to create value and they just went in on it themselves. but they don't think the run is over because they recognize how much better the company will be when it's divvied up for us, buyin