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To: Amelia Carhartt who wrote (84520)	2/17/2000 10:05:00 AM
From: clochard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86076

He lives in a little village on the island of Geekos.

To: Amelia Carhartt who wrote (84520)	2/17/2000 10:28:00 AM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86076

Last year, my brokerage commissions savings were in the five figures, as compared to the year before (I don't even want to think what I would have paid a few years back.) The kind of information that I get for free or trivial subscription prices on the web is worth to me at least hundreds of dollars. The quality and features of my new car far outweighs the extra money I paid compared to my old car a few years back. My phone bills have plunged. My new PC cost a fraction of the old one. ETC., ETC.

To: Amelia Carhartt who wrote (84520)	2/18/2000 6:04:00 AM
From: bill meehan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86076

MSB, just try to get a plumber to your house in So. CT. It's very hard just to get anyone to even give estimates on landscaping, building additions or repairs, etc. Many bank drive-thrus are closed because they can't find employees, and nobody is paid less than 175% of minimum wage with signing bonuses for counter help common. Just got a heating oil del'y $1.89/gal. Local YMCA family membership was $850 last year and is now $1,200. And the BLS will have you believe that housing costs rose at a significantly slower rate in '99 than they did in '98! No wonder the Fed has officially abandoned the CPI in favor of the chain-weighted price index in the PCE series (which increased at an annual rate of 2.5% in Q4 vs 1.8% in Q3).