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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (65700)	8/3/1999 11:31:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) of 132070

I agree with you completely, Betty. That was my point--- the guy was a walking disaster; had he been a bankteller, he probably would have been trying to fix the books, or a lawyer, he would have been ripping off little old ladies' estates, a postal worker, opening Easter cards and taking the 5.00 grandma was sending to her grandchildren. Day trading was merely the vehicle he choose to use. WHat I objected to was this columnist making it sound as if the daytrading was what caused him to kill-- rather than his own unbalanced personality, and that daytrading is inherently evil, causing overweening egos followed by disaster. (Couldn't he have a margin call on a long term hold investment?) I think the columnist took a dramatic incident and inaccurately applied it to try to make his own point. I think we said the same thing! Want to borrow my Uzi?

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