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To: Laser who wrote (6)	12/4/1998 6:44:00 PM
From: RockyBalboa	Respond to of 271

If you throw the long and the short scumbags from SI, as you name them, what, my dear, would remain... C.

To: Laser who wrote (6)	12/4/1998 6:59:00 PM
From: american dreamer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 271

OH MY GOD!!!!! NOT SHORT SELLERS - I HAVE THE CURE! The success of a company always defeats the short sellers. Nothing like rising profits and an increase in earnings per share to scare the living piss out of the shorts. On the other hand, please remember, shorts are people to. If you cut us do we not bleed? If we sell low and buy high, do we not suffer? Shorts are a most important part of the circle of life known as the market. They keep you from paying too much for those companies you love and when those companies turn to dogs, they soften the fall as you try to escape. They are the great mitigators to the hypsters and the hucksters who prey on the gullible and the ignorant. Without them the market would be a pretty ugly place. Wild swings up and falls from great heights without so much as a damp sponge to soften the blow. Short sellers merely come in and clean up the mess made by all the quick buck artists. I think of them as public servants and so should you.