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To: Ross Reller who wrote (44971)	1/9/2001 8:13:48 AM
From: Rande Is	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57584

Fascinating, Ross. Thanks for the read. So the investment bankers are snake oil salesmen and the IPOs, dotcoms and other inflated ideas are their potion. . . which they pump and peddle to the masses. And the whole term "wealth effect" was a manufactured misnomer from the very beginning . . . giving common people a false sense of wealth, which changed their behavior ever so slightly. ..but just enough to trap them all in a game of 3-card Monte. We do need new indicators and new analysis. . . .and we will get them. Rande Is

To: Ross Reller who wrote (44971)	1/9/2001 9:23:17 AM
From: Bucky Katt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

A KREM update from my short bet of a while back, these are the shares I was talking about> (I have no position now) The Winston-Salem, N.C., doughnut seller filed to sell two million shares, with just 150,000 offered by the company. The rest will come from insiders, including company executives, the company indicated. Kinda goes with that book idea....the last paragraph especially. It is going to be a dicey day in the markets with the NOK "surprise"

To: Ross Reller who wrote (44971)	1/9/2001 5:34:15 PM
From: JLS	Respond to of 57584

Wow, fascinating post which summarizes many of the things we have talked about here before. I'll bet the book is a great read. "We" have confused access with equality...the markets are not a democratizing medium and exist to reward the few at the expense of the many. Sure we can extract a few pennies here and there, but after the late 90s unlocked the door for the herd to barge in there were many slayings indeed. And whatever happened to dividends? At least with a dividend you were actually paid something for turning your money over to the corporation and assuming their market risk. The market operates on the greater fool concept, it's as simple as that. Whoever gets stuck holding the bag is the greatest fool and it's ALMOST NEVER the insiders.

To: Ross Reller who wrote (44971)	1/9/2001 8:27:59 PM
From: Smart_Money	Respond to of 57584

If we can make all the analyst personally buy 5,000 shares of every BUY recommendation and sell 5,000 shares of every hold recommendation we may get them to think of the action. The stock market is the buddy system. The individual investor is not a buddy they are the target. Everyday someone goes to prison for doing what the insiders, analyst and underwriters do legally in the stock market. The old pyramid system been around for ages and is against the law except for the stock market. Its a circle and until someone breaks it nothing will change.

To: Ross Reller who wrote (44971)	1/10/2001 1:10:59 AM
From: shadowman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57584

Something to think about....interesting reading. Small nit-pick What strikes me as even more fascinating and insidious at the same time, is the simple fact that throughout the eighties, these same corporate strategies backfired...They created an incredible stir, a PR nightmare...Many will remember the movie, "Roger and Me", which was a scathing indictment of the corporate culture...The movie blasted the management of Chrysler Corp for its decision to close down many plants in Detroit and featured the concommitant backlash-the poverty, the joblessness, the erosion of communities... Roger refers to Roger Smith, the (then) CEO of General Motors. General Motors was the specific culprit in that movie, not Chrysler.