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creppie

10/26/06 6:17 PM

#135286 RE: grandreal #135280

Right, I was saying that reselling (shorting) maybe just made more sense to the consumer back then before we all did this over intricate systems and people could try to influence on message boards.
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spockster202

10/26/06 6:20 PM

#135288 RE: grandreal #135280

I could be wrong but, isn't that how Joe Kennedy (JFK's father) added to the family fortune - shorting the market prior to the big collapse in 1929 along with bootlegging whiskey during prohibition?