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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (13926)	1/25/2002 3:06:41 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) of 74559

Well, maybe you're right. I keep feeling very stupid because it seems to me that it's a zero sum game - but then I read about all the wealth that is destroyed when stock markets crash, and people being ruined and jumping out of windows or shooting themselves, and I can't imagine someone jumping out of a window or shooting himself unless something very bad happened. Not being able to meet a margin call and having everything sold is unpleasant, of course - but do people wind up owing money to their brokers? I really don't know.

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