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To: Ilaine who wrote (60103)	5/20/1999 10:16:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

You know it's over when you can buy a '97 IOMG trading card. <edit> That's how I'll make my first million. Equity trading cards! What would you pay for a MSFT Rookie Card?? <edit edit> That's how I'll make my first billion. daytradingcards.com

To: Ilaine who wrote (60103)	5/20/1999 11:01:00 PM
From: NickSE	Respond to of 132070

It already has in the workplace. <<Stock market seems to be replacing sports as the national pasttime here>> Some Abandon the Water Cooler for Stock Trading on the Internet nytimes.com .....The long bull market and cascading advances in technology have combined to drive capitalism's main numbers game into the heart of the American workplace, with millions of wage earners, managers and entrepreneurs obsessing about Wall Street. Their obsession, in fact, far eclipses the speculative 1920's, when elevator operators and bootblacks were a chief source of what passed for information..... [.....] .....While much of the early concern about workday Internet abuse focused on pornography, the lure of the stock market has overtaken it, some specialists said. The Internet is making a lot of information available to small investors that was once accessible only to professionals. "That's where employees are really wasting their time," said Jonathan Penn, an analyst at Giga Information Group, a firm that advises companies on information technology. "I'd definitely put that first," he added, ahead of sports, personal E-mail, chat rooms and pornography..... Regards, Nick