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Article: Northwest Florida Daily News Columnist Wows Crowd.
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- November 8, 2002
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By Rebecca Cason, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 8--It's been 10 years since Malcolm Berko spoke to his followers on the Emerald Coast, and they welcomed the financial columnist back like an old friend.
"You tell it like it is, and that's why we love you," a woman in the audience gushed.
"We fight over who gets to read your column first," she added, jabbing her husband in the side with her elbow.
She and about 250 other faithful readers gathered Thursday at the Radisson on Okaloosa Island to get Berko's notoriously blunt take on the stock market, Wall Street and the state ...