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To: Sam who wrote (5835)	3/11/1999 10:59:00 PM
From: LK2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

We believe that Merrill Lynch is full of hot air. Is MER practicing what it preaches? How long has it taken MER to offer on-line trading to its customers? Supposedly, they have just recently, in the last few days, offered on-line trading to a tiny fraction of its customers--those who have wrap accounts, I think. The vast majority of MER customers who want to trade on-line have to use a different brokerage firm. Regards, Larry Disclosure--I sold covered calls on MER last week, because MER wouldn't give me any information on one of their investment products in an e-mail, but told me to talk to one of their live brokers, instead. So I am watching in frustration while the crunchy stock goes higher and higher. Life is not fair. And neither is MER. <G>

To: Sam who wrote (5835)	3/11/1999 11:55:00 PM
From: Frodo Baxter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

Yup, I just got out my shovel and dug through all of Blodget's investment and philosophy drop shipment. Breathless prose, ahh... funny valuation metrics, altogether typical hypish sell-side backwash. But then again, Henry "AMZN 400 BUY BUY BUY" Blodget is now ML's hottest analyst (I already miss Kurlak, dammit!) while his forerunner, Jon "AMZN 50 SELL SELL SELL" Cohen now works for... Wit Capital. Anyway, it's pretty clear why the buy-side has about as much respect for these jokers as I do for Keynesians.