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To: mt_mike who wrote (51579)	5/16/2002 11:02:46 PM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (1) of 65232

IBM worth 20, wow... if MSFT bought its stock, could = 100 the stock mgmt is so dangerous Gerstner seems to me an Enron-Anderson type of senior mentor he will not be caught but the market's revenge could be to trash IBM shares an old Digital colleague still works for IBM as an outside consultant he warned me 3 yrs ago that they engineer the books but not cook the books share buybacks were and are part of it I think it is a betrayal of the corporate charter how about retire some debt instead? or fund their pension fund instead? I believe in 5-10 years we will have new scandals about depleted pension funds across hundreds of companies these funds are put at risk constantly assumptions on their growth rates are exaggerated constantly their returns are comingled constantly honestly, I see a fresh scandal or two every year for as far the eye can see I will put forth a list soon and another of big potential surprises got a bet with my legendary CEO about Xerox going belly up by Nov02 / jim

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