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Old 03-18-2009, 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by ARyan
Seriously, you do not get why this is completely ridiculous?
I'm not sure that I do either. Do you think they should treat it as 'ordinary investment losses'?

Some of the investors are at fault for stretching themselves thin in this one particular investment, rather than spreading their monies around.
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