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To: CommanderCricket who wrote (109681)	9/17/2008 3:07:03 PM
From: The Reaper	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206184

Another whiner. Short interest on MS is minimal. What the hell does he care anyway. According to Yahoo stats insiders hold a whopping .25% of the stock. Couldn't be just folks fed up with each day bringing a new disaster. Nah. MS never should have opened their pie hole about looking for a merger partner. Left the door wide open for this kind of reaction.

To: CommanderCricket who wrote (109681)	9/17/2008 3:12:55 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 206184

The statement seems awfully self-serving. Any CEO with a firm whose vaults are full of derivatives has to know that leverage on the way down is a tough thing and that if what we see happening now were to occur the short-selling sharks would smell blood and attack. Obvious as the nose on my face. I think short sellers perform a very salutary function. Ideally, they keep companies honest and within the bounds of reasonable leverage. If they take on too much risk, the short selling sharks will come after them. Solution: don't take on too much risk and keep the leverage reasonable. Short sellers cull the weak from the herd. They enforce a bit of discipline no one thought about when the cash flowed freely.