BTW, I wonder how she likes her publishing platform. It looks real neat, but I wonder if she tried any others. The reason I ask is that apparently there are now 20 new blogs started up every minute, and according to some people there will be 10 million by year end, up from a couple hundred thousand a year ago. People want to know what works.

And I wonder, from Wendy, how Seattle is taking to Boeing these days? You know the people I care about are the 156,000 workers who are getting screwed over by the 1,000 in management, who I guess are now mostly in Chicago.

If Harry Stonecipher takes $50 million off the table for personal compensation for 2004, and with his stock options package he might, just think what all that money ($300 per year for every worker in the company) could do for his employees.

These people ought to be just as sick and tired of listening to Bullshooter Harry as I am. Couldn't the company get somebody else to work as CEO for say $3 million a year?

I mean, really how much do these people deserve? It's not their company. What career risk did retired Harry have in returning to active business at his age? How many more millions did he need?

Wendy, that kind of thing -- more than Kudlow -- I find revolting. On the other hand, Kudlow is kinda cool actually.

Kudlow's a "personality" -- an entertainer -- and he probably earns what he makes, so kudos to him. I don't listen to Kudlow's views though, no more say than I did to the personal views of my college profs as soon as I saw them crossing the line from academia to personal agenda.

If I've got the time to watch Kudlow's show, I do because there's a bigger picture and mostly because it's entertaining. And entertained viewers like me are putting money into Larry's pocket. What's wrong with that?

Others, like Boeing's Stonecipher might think they are entertaining with that homespun Tennessee drawl going on, but frankly I don't care if a CEO speaks or looks like ET as long as the job's getting done and that, instead of having to listen to conjecture, we simply get the straight facts.

And, readers, isn't that the job of trading bloggers like Wendy and I, to give people our unfiltered conjecture about issues in capital markets?

And just like Kudlow, often we bloggers say some of the dumbest things.

CONJECTURE
Pronunciation: kun'jekchur

WordNet Dictionary Definition:
[n] reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence
[n] a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence); "speculations about the outcome of the election"; "he dismissed it as mere conjecture"
[n] a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence [v] to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps."

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