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To: Earlie who wrote (141112)	12/31/2001 10:05:31 PM
From: robnhood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

I see you're back in full form Earlie---- That's good, cause the siren call is unrelenting.......

To: Earlie who wrote (141112)	12/31/2001 10:25:51 PM
From: robnhood	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Earlie, Some of the young guys at work seem to think that I know about the market;;;; so the other day they asked me if I thought that the bear was done....My most poingniant point, (I thought) to them was that at a normal bottom , no one was pointing UP. A day later, to illustate this to me , I received a letter from my sister with some old memorabillia in it. One thing was a clipping from an old newspaper interview that I had near the end of the mid seventies bear. At the time I was out of the business. Here it is----- Too depressing..." Russell Barnes was on the trading floor for almost 12 years. Then his company folded. Another victim of last year's crunch. " I couldn't believe it last summer-- Especially at my office. There was this gloom. A lot of people were talking about leaving the business. They figured it was all finished. I wanted to get out anyway. The computers were coming in and , although being a trader was once a respected job, it isn't now." So what is Russell Barnes , 33 years old doing now? He's working part time for his Father in Law, who runs a piano store: " I have to admit it. The exciting part of the street is addictive. If I passed by the Exchange now... Yeah, I guess I would walk in. "Yeah...."