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To: TTOSBT who wrote (53454)	4/15/1998 6:16:00 PM
From: John Chen	Respond to of 186894

TTOSBT,re:"unethical". What is that? Do you know how rich people get richer? Most if not all RICH people see making money is ethical, regardless of how, as long it doesn't get caught. There are too many examples and facts that I know about how RICH people operate. I see why they are rich and I'm only OK. A story: I know this guy who wants to buy an old corolla from me, he works for a rich lady who directed him to me. I said $1000, then work down to $950. Finally I told the rich lady I'll sell it for $900. The rich lady said don't tell him $900 because she wants to make $50 out of this guy by lending him $200 for a month or 2. So the guy thought I was selling the car $950 and didn't know the rich lady profitted in the deal. The rich lady has at least 5M in assets while the other guy is mowing lawn and doing chores for her. End of the story. I don't know what we should call those guys. I respect (finally) their talent in making money, which is their only job. They have to create panic situation in either direction to profit. If the target is only $5-$10 from current price, most will just hold. So the $60 target is a very reasonable 'panic number'. If you are not a trader, you don't suffer financial loss. However, long term investors do suffer a lot emotionally with these wild swings. I used to comfort myself by telling myself that I go to heaven and they (manipulators) go to hell. I'm not sure anymore. It's seems to me that MONEY can do a lot more than we think. Maybe those guys can tip off the 'heaven gate keeper' on special IPO or upgrade/downgrade announcement. So help me God.