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To: arun gera who wrote (86522)	1/28/2012 10:38:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 219832

That price increase was very annoying as it very nearly made me sell QCOM to some Mindless Zombie bidding stupid prices which would likely have put me afoul of NZ's capital gains tax laws. Fortunately the price fell. Unfortunately it fell far too far, in part because Big Al took too long to cut interest rates - I suspect because his preference was a George Bush presidency rather than an Al Gore one. In the same way he kept interest rates too low too long, again, I suspect, to help a Bush re-election [in part]. Mqurice