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To: abuelita who wrote (2481)	3/15/2001 12:24:03 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 104191

I agree with you both on margin. As a kid, when tennis were keds or flyers, which you checked out on the little x-ray dealieboppers in the shoe stores, and I was listening to the Loan Arranger and Tonto on the radio,I heard lots of stories about how margin calls were a major factor in the Crash of '29, so I have long been aware of the possibility of disaster when using margin. Seems like it has been causing major pain the last 12 months, too. Well, I'm gonna crash for a few hours and get up to do some terminal house-cleaning b4 the sisters arrive (panic, panic). Need to make a beer run, too. TK