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

To: bosquedog who wrote (88982)	1/29/2001 10:24:59 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Bob, Work for two hours? Nobody mentioned that slave labor crap during the interviews. <g> Actually, it is govt. regulation that will stop my investing posts, not time constraints. The securities regulators haven't figured out the Internet yet, other than that it is dangerous and a breeding ground for fraud. But they long ago figured out that everyone always tells the truth on the telephone, so talking about investments is o.k. No <g> on that, though it is pretty funny when you think about it. As one exec at a brokerage firm told me, "we don't like the internet because we can't control what people say there." I asked, "do you tape all your brokers' calls from the office, from their homes, from their cell phones, from pay phones?" "No, but the phone has been around longer." But I can't blame him or his firm. Nobody wants to be the test case that makes the net legal.