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To: American Spirit who wrote (75724)	4/23/2001 1:54:32 AM
From: iod_sherwood	Respond to of 99985

hope you realize that a lot of the artificial "book" value from merging... which most of the tech companies have, is basically air... and that they amortize "goodwill" and all that as losses over time because they have to. Book value is very deceiving at this point. If company A buys company B for 1.5billion, and all company B has is a few engineers and a prototype product, company A added 1.5b in assets... under "goodwill"... funky :) it's not book value, but does get counted as such... then they start amortizing it... LOL... lucky for pro forma accounting :)

To: American Spirit who wrote (75724)	4/23/2001 9:01:19 AM
From: 10K a day	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

In a convoluted sort of way. your Joker Broker. he's selling you Insecurities. In a twisted. sorta' way....

To: American Spirit who wrote (75724)	4/23/2001 12:16:41 PM
From: gc	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 99985

you are right. we are now just in a minor pullback. the rally will resume soon. hold on longs. it's just an orderly retreat. we will march to 5000, the promised land, soon.