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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (9127)	3/19/2008 9:09:43 AM
From: Oblomov	Respond to of 33421

As a footnote, BIS used to have stock that was publicly traded on the OTCBB. A friend had some for several years. He got quarterly reports on a lot of interesting features of the global financial system, and did well on the investment, too, since they made a sweet tender offer for all shares in 1998 or 1999, and went private. Too bad I didn't buy some- it would have been intereseting to attend a shareholder's meeting in Basel. I might have had to splurge on an more expensive suit than what I owned at the time, though. <g>