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To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (8827)	2/7/2008 4:43:11 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33421

LOL!!!! Or, it's a legal Ponzi scheme and you don't want to be the last guy due to be paid. :-)

To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (8827)	2/7/2008 4:54:26 PM
From: The Ox	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33421

In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each." The villagers rounded up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys. Then they never saw the man nor his assistant again, only monkeys everywhere! After a few nervous days, one of the villagers had a great idea! He made a few phone calls and arranged for the village to sell all the monkeys to a rogue trader from Societe Generale.... Now you have a better understanding of how the stock market works.

To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (8827)	2/13/2008 12:52:18 AM
From: John Pitera	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33421

Gotta Love it Patrick.... sounds like an ancillary story that should be right after Adam Smith's (George Goodman's> nom de plume tale of trading cocoa futures in the 1960's. In his book The Money Game Smith outlines a riotously amusing tale of being induced to take a position in cocoa futures based on fundamental developments in african; soon Smith is hounding colleagues and cocktail soiree attendees for tidbits of information on developments that could positively impact his position. John