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To: Jeffery E. Forrest who wrote (13924)3/18/1998 9:52:00 AM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 22053
 
You can't even trust Grandma:

Beardstown Ladies Confess To Having Made a Big Goof
By CALMETTA Y. COLEMAN
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

The price of grandmotherly advice may be going down soon.

The Beardstown Ladies, the group of elder investors that became nationwide media darlings, said Tuesday that an audit by Price Waterhouse shows the 10-year average annual rate of return on which their fame was based was 9.1% -- not the 23.4% touted on the cover of their best-selling book.