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To: tom pope who wrote (122193)	7/5/2009 9:32:42 PM
From: Ed Ajootian	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 206131

tom, no, I don't. I should have been clearer -- I'm not thinking of buying the bonds but rather am thinking of just buying the TIP ETF, which I presume would have the normal margin requirements that would apply for a stock. I probably could get a lot more margin by buying the TIP bonds themselves, but I'm not confident enough in the strategy to do that. As we've seen what happened with the financial firms, when you have a lot of leverage and things go wrong, it can get ugly real fast.