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- From: diamond@jit533.jit.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
- Subject: Re: What's the next BIG thing? (was Re: Does it BUG you?)
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan , Tokyo
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:28:41 GMT
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- In article <33450137@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> lynch@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Howard Lynch) writes:
- >How do you want to bet? Too bad you can't "short sell" baseball cards :-)
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- You borrow cards from a willing lender, with a promise to return the cards
- at some future date. You sell the cards. You buy them back before the
- determined time, or arrange an extension, or whatever.
-
- Now if only you could do that with real estate :-)
- --
- Norman Diamond diamond@jit081.enet.dec.com
- If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.
- "It's been a lovely recession."
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