Subject: Proposed Regulation FD: File No. S7-31-99

Date:    07/12/2000 4:23 PM
     
     
The selective release of information to analysts is an impedement to a 
free market economy. In the age of the internet, more investors are 
choosing to personally research their investments and take more control 
of their economic futures. Restricting access of pertinent fiancial data 
and filtering it to the public through an analysts "spin" is both 
unnecessary and unwanted. If this information is released in an open 
forum then anyone who chooses to seek the advice of analysts will have 
that option. The growing balance of investors, myself included, who seek 
to make investment decisions based on their own analysis expect equal 
access to information and a level playing field for all investors.
     
Tim Brown
Resource International, Inc.