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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>I don’t know much about Elon Musk, I know less about investing than Sam Cooke knows about a science book. But I have seen that Musk’s factory builds cool cars and watched in awe as his other company landed two rocket boosters side by side simultaneously feet first, the way we have envisioned a dignified booster recovery since I was a child. So that just gives the man a certain credibility on matters I don’t pretend to understand.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Sayeth MusK:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white'>“…u can’t sell houses u don’t own u can’t sell cars u don’t own but u *can* sell stock u don’t own!? this is bs – shorting is a scam legal only for vestigial reasons…”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white'>That sounds right to me. That whole short selling business just feels like it enables and encourages wrongdoing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>