I can’t tell you how many deals I have lost to other Investors who were using shady business practices… Sometimes an idea should be “knocked about”!

He spent his money, lost his drive, and he was done.

I known many people who had to sell their homes or have lost it to foreclosure.

I suppose there might be some value in having your company (Habitation Realty) splashed all over the country on a cable show, but is it really worth what this guy has lost?

One of the good things is I am no longer afraid, I almost lost everything that was important to me last summer (my family) now I am willing to risk everything to change our current living situation.

The clearest indication that Greenspan has perhaps lost a step came near the end of his piece in the FT, where he wrote: "A financial crisis is heralded, in fact defined, by sharp discontinuities of asset prices."

As a country we have almost lost the ability to do long range planning and even more importantly work a long range plan.

We just got some minor wind damage and lost power for 4 1/2 days.

You lost money on your investment, you are supposed to "take the hit".

LTCM was a beta house and that is how the lost their money, they had loads of money in correlation trades especially in the bond areas, not pure arbitrage.The Goldman Fund that melted down recently was another example of a Beta fund, tracking correlations between obsure unrelated securities.