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To: Bonnie Bear who wrote (11405)	12/13/1997 9:49:00 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18056

Hi Bonnie; Finally I met someone who reads enough about the market to be bearish on it. But he has no short positions. In fact, I don't (personally) know anyone who has any short positions at all. This is in keeping with the statement made on this thread that only about 2% of all investments are on the short side. By the way, I never could work out the numbers on the guy who bought the house and rented it out and the house went up in value. You gave the amount the house had to go up in order for him to come out even (or was it the amount implied by his purchase price?), but when I worked through the numbers at the rise in price you gave he was making an incredible return on his money (assuming he sold out). In other words, you can make money on inflated assets just so long as you sell at the right time. But the rule is that someone always has to own the asset, so someone has to get it in the "shorts" eventually? -- Carl