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To: MileHigh who wrote (59213)	1/3/2000 11:52:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

I tried to look up QCOM options on cboe.com and it would say no options found. It could report the stock quote. Are they stopping opions on QCOM? If not, how do you find the price of the option chain? Is it on a different exchange? TP

To: MileHigh who wrote (59213)	1/3/2000 11:55:00 PM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

on Seidman (on my Genius List): except for the 1973 Arabs, and 1990 Saddam, the Fed has caused every recession since WW2... the secret to Greenspan's brilliance is his humility to allow the credit market to control policy if they preempt the market, we will short circuit the economy's expansion on course now we got a risky situation with the Fed turnover of governors in next few months... I dont like it one iota... new guys will likely attempt to make their marks early by being hawkish, esp if they DONT understand what the technological revolution is all about / jim

To: MileHigh who wrote (59213)	1/4/2000 8:15:00 AM
From: RocketMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Yes, the Fed always causes a recession, then they fix it by throwing money at it. That is how it always works. This time they are frustrated because as much as they have raised interest rates they can not bring the economy into recession (I mean, slow the growth down in their words). That is because (1) of productivity gains due to the tech revolution and (2) they have been throwing money at it anyway, first in the Asian meltdown and now due to Y2K. So now they have a fire into which they have thrown both gasoline and water, and they don't know what to do, so they will keep throwing water at it. Maybe some day they will figure out that the economy would self-correct without their action, that interest rates have no reason to be above 1 or 2 percent in today's environment, and that they are just postponing the inevitable paradigm shift to a bits and bytes economy, but I doubt it. The more likely outcome is that they will keep raising interest rates until they bring on the recession, put people out of work, cause a huge credit crunch, and put the national budget back in the red. Then they will throw money at it again, lower interest rates, and the next President will take credit for bringing the economy out of recession.