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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (66842)	8/26/1999 5:35:00 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Respond to of 132070

ROTFLMAO >>>I always knew that with the Greater Fool theory in full effect, there had to be a last guy in the herd to get the news. I just didn't think he would post here. <g> <<<

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (66842)	8/26/1999 5:36:00 PM
From: Cynic 2005	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

<<Credit Suisse First Boston analyst Paul Weinstein said in a note to clients that Cisco's purchases give the company a "larger optical arsenal" against some of its competitors. The fast-growing optical networking market is largely dominated by rival equipment makers Nortel Network (NT: news, msgs), Lucent Technologies (LU: news, msgs) and France's Alcatel (ALA: news, msgs).>> "larger optical arsenal?" He doesn't mean larger smoke and "morrors," does he? Nah!! cbs.marketwatch.com

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (66842)	8/26/1999 8:42:00 PM
From: sjemmeri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Nibbled at some qcom puts this afternoon. Any thoughts on those?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (66842)	8/27/1999 12:41:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

with the Greater Fool theory in full effect, there had to be a last guy in the herd to get the news. Should be the "greater bool" theory. In the greatest bool market in history.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (66842)	8/27/1999 10:36:00 AM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike, This is frightening. It looks like AG.com is in the early stages of having a clue. (BG) Full text first: biz.yahoo.com dailynews.yahoo.com dailynews.yahoo.com Wayne

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (66842)	8/27/1999 10:49:00 AM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 132070

just heard about a woman in the yay area that took a 50% pay cut in order to join a internut and for the privilege of stock options. who said options don't replace salary? ;-)

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (66842)	8/27/1999 11:09:00 AM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike, I have a simple suggestion for AG.com to solve his confusion about what earnings really are and how to measure them in a world of high R&D and information. How about not looking at them? No matter what earnings really are and what accounting standards you use the net cash that a business generates after its investments is real and measurable. If the investment rate is high as a percentage of earnings the rate of growth of that free cash should also be high. If it is low then the growth rate will be low but the amount be higher. So it possible to have some measure stock prices in relation to each other and the past without looking at the reported earnings. Wayne