Final Thoughts
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
January 28, 2015
From time to time you might find that our emailed newsletter gets put into your SPAM folder or even blocked within your system. Many SPAM programs look for key words such as the word used when you borrow funds to acquire a home (starts with an “m”). Another word that can fire up the SPAM software is the word survey (which we have used in tonight’s edition a number of times). We try to use the terminology “flat rolled steel market analysis” in the hope that you understand what we are really talking about is the “s” word.
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John Packard, Publisher
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