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To: Andy Yamaguchi who wrote (2)	1/14/2003 9:37:01 AM
From: jameswallen	of 4

I believe that it was last Wednesday, 8 Jan. I clipped out the article for reference, but didn’t retain the date. The article was by John McKinnon, “Look the Fine Print: A Capital-Gains Cut” in the Politics & Policy section. If you subscribe to the WSJ online, you should be able to search for it. Bush did not describe this aspect of his tax plan in his speech. However, details of the full plan were published on the same day. I first heard about it in a column in National Review Online. I haven’t seen anything written about the clerical task of tracking retained earnings so that investors can change their costs basis. This is something which I think brokers will do for their customers. I expect that when companies announce their annual result, they’ll publish their retained earnings (after dividends paid) number. I expect that stock prices will reflect retained earnings just as the do dividend payments. That is, stocks will go ex-earnings just as the go ex-dividends.

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