Sound Off highlights anonymous, brief takes on the news offered via telephone by Daily News readers.

Economics 101: If you can afford to put money in the stock market, then you can afford to lose it.

I am calling to let you know that we found an older couple going through our mail. You need to be on the lookout. We have called the post office and the police, but everyone needs to be on the lookout for this.

Watching the City Council meeting on television, the council appears to be very concerned about revenue and expenditures but let us not forget that this council has been giving money away to its special-interest friends and building things like boat docks and going to the airport and the swimming pool — things that don’t make any money.

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