thegreatcrash.com press release

Tom Lehman uswa12 at Lorainccc.edu
Thu Jan 6 11:43:27 PST 2000


Thank you for your support. A 10.7 billion dollar fiction!

Tom Lehman

Jordan Hayes wrote:


> From uswa12 at Lorainccc.edu Thu Jan 6 11:18:47 2000
>
> To make a long story short this high flying ipo raised 10.7
> billion giving FreeMarkets a bigger market capitalization
> than steel/energy giant USX.
>
> Uh ... they raised $172.8M in the IPO; the market capitalization
> is just a fiction. They only sold 11% of the company.
>
> /jordan



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