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To: $Mogul who wrote (423)	6/13/2000 1:08:00 PM
From: Paul Berliner	Respond to of 1001

Can Short and Able to Short are two entirely different things in the world of shorting. Seems like all avail KREM shs have been lent out already. Just because a company goes public with 3M shs does not mean that 3M are shortable. go tell your broker not to lend out your 100 shares of KREM. If you do so, 100 fewer are shortable. One cannot short the entire tradeable share capital. Check out GSTRF = over 2/3 of the shs o/s are sold short. Obviously there is great demand to short these shs. That total makes up just about all of the shs held by retail investors. Any institutions long GSTRF, plus controlling shareholders such as LOR are not lending out their shs to short. Anyone can request that their shs not be lent out.