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To: stan_hughes who wrote (40507)	7/18/2001 11:59:46 AM
From: Louis V. Lambrecht	Read Replies (1) of 100058

stan - sellers can run out of stocks, then start shorting. As long as there are stocks in margined accounts, these stocks are "for borrowing". I would take your demoraphic argument the other way: too many individuals have a brokerage account, and the (by historcal means) high number of accounts has to be reduced in order to have a better (historically) balance of supply and demand. (Lost the link of these data). Currently (1999-2000) the big boyz could sell their shares at any price. Time to start marking down the prices and buy them back. This process takes years. And J6P will loose his money. By 2015-20, baby boomers will start their retirement: guess there will be few money left in their accounts.

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