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To: John Dally who wrote (58191)	4/30/1999 10:26:00 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

"08:30 Q1 PERSONAL SAVINGS RATE NEGATIVE 0.5%, WORST IN AT LEAST 53 YEARS." Could somebody explain to me how the personal savings rate is calculated? Most people think of their "savings" as including: Savings Accounts CDs Checking Accounts Money Market Accounts Taxable Brokerage Accounts 401k's, SEPPs, etc. IRA's Roth Accounts Equity in the House & other real estate Which of these are "personal savings"?

To: John Dally who wrote (58191)	4/30/1999 10:54:00 AM
From: John Dally	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

After making your first $ billion on puts, here's what could happen if you're not careful . . . BETRAYAL OF TRUSSED By ALLAN HALL and BILL HOFFMANN A married billionaire was left tied to his bed naked amid whips and chains after a dominatrix he hired fled his burning hotel suite in Germany yesterday. Firefighters had to use cutting equipment to free the red-faced tycoon as they battled flames in the luxurious Hyatt Hotel in Cologne. "He was very crimson. People cheered him in the lobby as he ran out with just a sheet around himself, which certainly added to his embarrassment," a fire department spokesman told The Post. Authorities refused to identify the wealthy executive other than to say he was a "senior German business executive" with a wife and two kids. They said the kinky caper could have easily cost him his life. The sizzling saga began just after midnight when the man hired a 28-year-old dominatrix named Ramona to bind, gag and whip him in his $400-a-night suite. Ramona - dressed in fishnet stockings, six-inch spiked heels, chain-mesh bra and equipped with cat-o-nine-tail whips and nasty sex toys - tied him spread-eagle to the bed with ropes. But shortly after the session began, a fire broke out in the sauna of the next-door presidential suite occupied by billionaire computer mogul Charles Wang. Wang - chairman of Computer Associates, the nation's second largest software company - tore into the hallway and began warning hotel guests to flee, unaware of his neighbor's in-progress sex-slave session. Ramona heard Wang's warnings about the fire, dropped her whip - and fled the room leaving her client immobile and unable to cry for help. But when hotel workers and firefighters began a room-to-room search for guests, they stumbled onto the bizarre scene that looked like something out of a triple-X porn flick. It took two hours to extinguish the fast-moving blaze which partially destroyed the top two floors. The unnamed executive was one of 244 high-powered guests at the Hyatt for a invitation-only business summit, which was attended by such big wigs as Ford Motor Vice President Nick Scheele. The $1,700-a-night suite where the fire began is where President Clinton was slated to stay this June when he attends the European Economic Union Summit meeting with other world leaders.