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same thing happened: the bailout started
looking uncertain.
Alan “reasoned” (this word is in quotation
marks because, according to
Dorn, conscious reasoning had little to
do with Alan’s behavior) that the price
couldn’t go much lower. He held on, savoring
the idea of how much fun he
and his wife would have spending all
the money he stood to make. Again the
stock went lower. When finally it hit
seven dollars per share, Alan sold. And
bought yet again, in a flush of exhilaration,
when he heard that the bailout
might happen after all …
By the time GM’s stock price fell to
two dollars a share, Alan had lost seven
hundred thousand dollars, or 70 percent
of his family nest egg.
He was devastated. He asked Dorn if
she could help recoup his losses. She
could not. “It’s gone,” she told him.
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