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To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (282370)	10/10/2010 12:44:51 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 306849

Father and Son sighting. Let us pray. ================================================= From: Yulya 10/10/2010 9:45:09 AM 1 Recommendation of 114067 SEC meets with Goldman Sachs, Wall Street CEOs behind closed doors Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) met with top brass at Goldman Sachs at the Willard Hotel to discuss implementation of the Dodd-Frank financial reform. So what happened? We wish we could tell you. When The Examiner called the SEC to ask for comment or for any notes from the meeting, they said that they would not comment and could neither confirm nor deny a meeting with Goldman. “But we know it happened,” I told the press officer. “No comment.” How do we know a meeting happened? From Politico’s Morning Money: Top Wall Street CEOs were in D.C. yesterday to meet privately with top regulators at the Willard hotel. Much of the discussion centered on Dodd-Frank implementation. The meeting was closed to press, but our spies say chief executives including Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase and Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs expressed relief that they at least now know what the new rules of the road are going to be (even if they don’t always agree with them). There couldn’t have been much confidential discussed in this meeting if two competitors were in the room. But what makes this worse is this line from a press release back in July: Staff will ask those who request meetings to provide, prior to the meeting, an agenda of intended topics for discussion. After the meeting, the agenda will become part of the public record. According to this, the SEC has pledged full transparency then — in fact, if you go to the public comment page for Dodd-Frank, you’ll see that they do provide memoranda based on meetings they have with “interested parties.” But the public affairs officer’s reluctance to confirm or deny the meeting as reported in Politico shows a gaping loophole: There’s no way to know whether a meeting took place unless they decide to tell us. And so far, they haven’t told us. Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com

To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (282370)	10/10/2010 3:49:12 PM
From: starhawke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Yikes. Waaaaay overpriced. 25 cents/minute for $10/month, or 25 cents/minute with 2000 minutes for $40/month? Not a good deal at all. ($120 per year + phone + 25 cents per minute, or $480 per year + phone + 25 cents per minute for 2000 minutes. for above yiers.) There are many, many other pre-paid wireless providers with significantly better rates. (No contracts, pay as you go.) Hundreds of minutes for under $10.00 a month is do-able, and 2,000+ minutes per year plus texting is easily do-able for well under $200 per year. (Plus phone.) Somewhat dated info, but a decent starting place: cellguru.net S PS. At 25 cents per minute for an unsolicited sales call, my head would probably explode. And they -will- happen.