In Reply to: Re: Speculation re. compulsory transfer by IBM US of employees to cash balance plan posted by GrumpyGuts on 10 March 2003 at 07:03:11:
GG,
: He was right when he said that it was currently just speculation wasn't he?
I am not sure what the "it" in this sentence refers to. Anything about what might happen was speculation. Anything about what has happened was not. (It might conceivably be incorrect, but it was not presented as speculation.)
If the "it" means the email Spiggott got, then yes, I would classify almost all of it as speculation. (Although not unfounded speculation.)
You could well be right that "Another View" was addressing my posting rather than Spiggott's. But since mine was just a sharing of material from the Financial Times, I didn't have anything worth adding. (Although maybe it would have been better if I had made my remarks about the newsletter in a separate response.)