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To: SeaViewer who wrote (23156)4/5/2000 10:21:00 AM
From: IceShark  Respond to of 42523
 
I think that Nick Leeson (sp) deal is better characterized as doubling, trebling, quading on a bet gone wrong, horribly as it turns out. Unlike the US speculators, he didn't have the Gov't behind him to bail his ass out.