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To: TobagoJack who wrote (61469)	4/2/2005 4:50:43 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

I see you are shorting MBIA ...that's on my list for some more DD - Herb Greenberg was talking about MBIA on Jim Cramer's show...Jim had the opinion that MBIA was so important the government might need to prop them up....

To: TobagoJack who wrote (61469)	4/2/2005 3:49:36 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

<So, let's see, that would be a double on top of a quadruple, plus yield, say within 5 years from today, or 8.7 fold on asset, or 26.7 fold on equity in 5 years ?! I can dream, no? What is wrong with the picture? I don't know, but I will find out ;0)> Jay, having number one son in Tokyo, overlooking said opportunity from about the 30th floor, we have drooled and slobbered and so far avoided the temptation. It seems extraordinary, but somehow seems like a trap. Perhaps the vast numbers of new yens are being loaded into ships and sent to China and devaluation can continue in Japan, rendering your Tokyo property worth-less. As the Japanese population dwindles and they earn money from investments abroad and robots in Japan making Toyotas galore, perhaps rentals will drop along with property sale prices. I'm guessing because the picture just looks too good to be true. But the picture has been true for some years now. Tarken-san's boss however, Horie billionaire-san, livedoor.com is not so reticent, presumably because he is smart and Japanese and knows the intracacies of Japanese financial shenanigans. His billions continue to expand at a very healthy rate and is the main newsmaker in Japan. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (61469)	4/2/2005 4:00:48 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<P.s. I do feel a bit strange about the nature of my work. Each day I flip on my geewhizbang PC, kick up my Unreal Tournament Onslaught Game, fire up my communication applications, i.e. outlook, groove, messenger, and skype, and all these little voices and messages appear from deep within the machine and beyond the immediate mechanism, asking me to do matters, and telling me about anti-matters. I really do like this modern, thoroughly enjoyable, very stimulating knowledge-based intellectual capital enabled pastime. And I get to do the Onslaught Game to music, accompanied by ice coffee, 24/7/52. Thank goodness for Al Gore who invented the Internet :0)> Jay, it's weird, true enough. Yet it's real and pays so much better than ordinary hard yakker of sweat and toil. Cyberspace capitalism is wonderful. Swooping around the world with clicks and pixels, with tsunamis of $billions and Ytrillions in seconds reorienting the efforts of billions to more productive enterprise. With great power comes great responsibility, not to mention the more important great personal liability. One false move and one's little Tonka Truckload of participating pixels are disappeared into the void, the computer no longer responds to one's ministrations, and one is cast back into the 3D world to earn a living in the harsh world of sweat and toil, bemoaning the marketing strategy of a failed Globalstar enterprise which one backed with verve and misplaced wisdom. Mqurice