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To: Yogizuna who wrote (1259)	1/20/2004 8:13:28 PM
From: Wade	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 48092

Nice rebound of PM stocks, however, the pull backs are too fast, which tells me that this is still a traders' heaven. <G> How did you do today? It seems that not enough people believe the "big bump" was over. We'll know it tonight.

To: Yogizuna who wrote (1259)	1/20/2004 10:34:41 PM
From: jrhana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 48092

Technically speaking, a company's primary moral obligation is to their shareholders-of course, within the bounds of paying legal debts and obeying laws etc. IBM serves no purpose by going bankrupt trying to preserve unpreservable jobs. Computer programming as a profession is dead in this country IMO. If we are going to survive and thrive as a country in this brave new world, we have to learn to adjust our economic sights and export erything that we can export with either a unique nitch or a competitive price tag. Agriculture should be a strong point-American brand name cars still have kitch value world wide. American movies and television are (perhaps unfortunately) extraordinarily popular world wide. We need to immediately promote a massive tourism industry. But computers-I believe you can kiss that one good bye.