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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Murphy who wrote (5418)	4/20/1999 10:12:00 AM
From: jgibbs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81088

Bill, Just off the Yahoo Finance PR Newswire. Atta way to go. It's there for all to see. It's big and it's bold. JimG Investigation of Gold Price Manipulation Launched by GATA; Berger & Montague Retained as Counsel biz.yahoo.com

To: Bill Murphy who wrote (5418)	4/20/1999 3:05:00 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81088

Could this rid of us of the paper "fire wall" between Goldman & LTCM? Is this being forced? Would this at least be a "spin off" of LTCM? <<Monday April 19, 9:54 pm Eastern Time LTCM buyout viewed by partners, Goldman's Corzine NEW YORK, April 19 (Reuters) - Jon Corzine, the co-chairman of Goldman Sachs & Co. who will quit the investment bank next month, has found a new challenge -- trying to raise billions of dollars to buy out the owners of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management. Corzine, a former star bond trader, has linked up with Long-Term's founding partner John Meriwether and other original partners of the hedge fund to look for ways to buy out the consortium of banks that own the fund, a person familiar with the situation said on Monday. The attempt, which the source described as preliminary, was first reported in the April 20 edition of the Financial Times, a British business daily. Spokesmen for the fund and the bank consortium were not immediately available to comment. Long-Term Capital, of Greenwich, Conn., almost went bust after losing billions of dollars during the market turmoil of last fall, despite boasting two Nobel laureates on its roster of partners....>> biz.yahoo.com One more question, Why did Corzine quit and did he quit or "quit"?