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To: mishedlo who wrote (5742)	5/6/2004 2:05:13 PM
From: yard_man	Respond to of 116555

didn't one of the banks buy a bunch of plants on the cheap?? -- was that Goldman? -- I mean that wouldn't be totally stupid. I have a hard time with what you are intimating -- that somehow banks are smarter than Dominion -- although, I do know what kind of forecast those guys at Dominion are reading -- but Goldman gets them, too ...

To: mishedlo who wrote (5742)	5/6/2004 2:08:06 PM
From: yard_man	Respond to of 116555

here ya go highbeam.com

To: mishedlo who wrote (5742)	5/6/2004 2:10:55 PM
From: yard_man	Respond to of 116555

bizjournals.com

To: mishedlo who wrote (5742)	5/6/2004 2:37:16 PM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

golly -- what a bunch of YHOOs -- where did they get that?? "free-fall??" what a joke -- Luc ----- bigger than this <g> >>Thu 2:00pm ET - CBS MarketWatch U.S. stocks were in free fall Thursday as renewed interest rate worries following another round of positive economic data prompted an indiscriminate sell-off.<< note: selling is always indiscriminate. buying is always discriminate.

To: mishedlo who wrote (5742)	5/6/2004 2:57:23 PM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

YHOO has some really dumb quizzes sometimes, but this one is really dumb ... >>Q. Bob and Jane start with $1 each, and each average a pretax annual return of 20%. But Bob trades annually (incurring ordinary income taxes) while Jane buys and holds. After 40 years, how do their portfolios compare, after taxes? Jane's is about 6 times as large as Bob's Jane's is about twice as large as Bob's Jane's is 28% larger than Bob's Jane's and Bob's are the same size <<