<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 7/31/2003 11:48:39 PM GMT Daylight Time, mpollak@panix.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Now here's the question: this market has existed for two days; and during<BR>
that time it was dead, as Jordan has so clearly explained. It never had a<BR>
full transaction. All it did was translated the obvious prevailing belief<BR>
into market arcana.<BR>
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Bouncing PoinD doesn't count as a transaction of public opinion?<BR>
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Poindexter is like the creaure from the Black lagoon. He keeps coming back and coming back! I doubt we're really rid of him yet.<BR>
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Now anyone wanna try and handicap how long it's going go take for PoinD to wind up on the staff of some think tank doing the same thing with the same government money and even less public scrutiny? Oh and which think tank?<BR>
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DoreneC</FONT></HTML>