Stock exchange to go public

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Post #42,176 by drewk 6/13/02 9:21:08 AM Reply	Stock exchange to go public The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has filed notice they are planning to issue an IPO, becoming the first exchange to go public. I can't even imagine the impact this will have. Depressingly, I doubt anyone involved in the plan can either. === Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #42,446 by Ashton 6/15/02 8:52:14 PM Reply	Look at it as, just another (new) Lottery Like the other ones. You play the numbers, become "A Sacred Owner / Stockholder" for a few minutes or days - and then you play the numbers again. Total-disconnect from "owning Anything" but WTF, we prefer Illusion every time, and what else ya gonna do with the numbers? Finance an actual company [??] Ashton Las Vegas
Post #42,555 by static 6/17/02 1:55:08 AM Reply	Not the first. The Australian Stock Exchange IPOed a few years back. [link\|http://www.asx.com.au/shareholder/l3/ASXOverview_AS3.shtm\|They listed in October 98 on their own market]. Wade. "Ah. One of the difficult questions."

Stock exchange to go public - (drewk) - (2) - June 13, 2002, 09:21:08 AM EDT

Look at it as, just another (new) Lottery - (Ashton) - June 15, 2002, 08:52:14 PM EDT

Not the first. - (static) - June 17, 2002, 01:55:08 AM EDT

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