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To: Tommaso who wrote (7455)	11/8/1997 6:12:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18056

Tommaso: Another French aphorism, similar to the one on your post, also applies to the markets: "Comme on fait la guerre avec le sang des autres, on fait fortune avec l'argent d'autrui." This is from Andre Suares (can't put the accents in). I'll translate (freely) for the non-francophones: "Just as war is made with the blood of others, so are fortunes made with other peoples' money." Jack

To: Tommaso who wrote (7455)	11/8/1997 10:50:00 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18056

>>Ok... who or what is Ferengi?<< See: orlinter.com

To: Tommaso who wrote (7455)	11/10/1997 2:46:00 PM
From: HB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18056

Tommaso, Joseph Ferengi is one of the top analysts at Goldman-Sachs. He specializes in commodities, esp. gold, and has a sideline in analyzing defense-related issues, especially arms manufacturers, and the secondary market for same. The guy is brilliant, but his ethics and analysis cannot be trusted--he moves markets, but generally to his own advantage, like any of these big analysts. Not to be confused with Joe Marengi, ceo of Novell; similar ethics, many on the Novell thread would argue, but less brains. All with a very big <g> Howard