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To: Jenna who wrote (83834)	2/22/2000 6:28:00 AM
From: lee kramer	Respond to of 120523

I'VE BEEN WONDERING.... - Where they find the goobers who developed their up and downgrade ratings-systems; "AOL was downgraded today by Hookem, Schnookem & Rookem analyst Ward Bean to a Strong Buy from an Aggressive Buy" and the stock drops five. Or "AOL was upgraded by analyst Sy Gezundt today from an "Accumulate" to a "Buy" and runs up 10 on 5 five-million shares within ten minutes. - If there's a straighter-shooter on the Street than James Cramer. - Or a better technical analyst than Ralph Block. - Why I didn't short KIDE a couple of months ago when my grandson Richie, age 6, and his sister Emma-Dilemma, age 4, stopped schlepping all their Pokemon cards (neatly encased in plasic pockets inside their hard-cover three ring binders) everywhere they went. - Whatever happened to QCOM target $1,000? - If Maria B. can go another year without getting knocked toochas-over-teakettle by a 275 pound floor broker streaking for a floor-phone to enter an order. - If there's no limit to the hanky-panky going on during after-hours trading. - Are there any ads better than Ameritrade's, featuring my hero "Stuart"? - Or worse ads than Brown & Co.'s. -Are you really sorry the NFL season is over? And are you as eager as me for the start of the baseball season? - Will Joe "the-perpetual-bull" Battipaglia ever utter a negative word about the market? -If pro-golfer Phil Mickelson and actor Hugh Grant are drop-dead look aikes...and separated at birth? - Why I can't pull the trigger on any IPO that's priced at $20, opens at $55 and then runs another 40 points? - If the once pompous NYSE is shakin', quakin' and downright worried now that they're facing some tough competition after a century or two of a Very Profitable monopoly? - Who's gonna be blamed if the market croakes? Day-traders and on-line brokers are at the top of my list. Nonsense. - Where is Jim Rogers? Is he fed up with CNBC? And why did CNBC dump the irascible and interesting James Camer? - If the just released movie "The Boiler Room" gripped you as it did me. - Why does CNBC bring on the same old analysts and fund managers? Why do most of 'em talk up a stock,(maybe they're sitting on a million or two shares?) without mentioning they own a ton. Have they never heard the phrase "Full Disclosure?" - Does it really matter whether you pay 35 1/8 or 35 3/16 for a stock you want to own? - Why I turn on CNBC, but promptly hit the "mute" button. - And while we're at it...do you really think the CEO's "interviewed" by CNBC will ever mutter a negative word about their company? - Is there a finer CNBC'er than Ron Insana. - Why a stock runs up whenever CNBC announces that the company's CEO "will be joining us right after the next commercial break?" - Why Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan refuses to look both ways before sprinting across the highway on his way to those FOMC meetings. Is he late? Will his wife please buy him an alarm clock! He gets hit buy a bus and it's maybe 1,000 points down on the NASDAQ...or 1,000 points up. - Is there anything more ridiculous than "Whisper" numbers? - If you're as weary as I am watching CNBC run their "penguins plopping into the water" clip. - Is there a better bond-market analyst than CNCS's Kathleen Hays? - And speaking of rumors, is there a finer cottage-industry on the Street? Pop a bullish rumor and the stock you wanna dump is easily dumpable. Same for bearish rumors. - And where are the Rumor Police? Hanging out at Dunkin Donuts maybe? - Why won't CNBC bring on someone, anyone,...preferably professional traders rather than yutz after yutz fielding questions from Solly in Secaucus asking the same tired old question: "Thanks for taking my call Mr. Yutz. Can you give me your short-term and long-term evaluation on Walmart...or Gilette...etc., etc, etc. " Yawn. -If we'll EVER hear an analyst on CNBC say "That stock is a dog. Sell it! Now." Nah, it'll never happen 'cause Mark, Joe, Maria and a flanx of producers will all topple off their stools onto the floor suffering nasty bumps to the head. - Is there a finer site than Market Gems, where the 'gemmers share extraordinary information and help each other trade well and make profits? Lee Kramer