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Always something to keep in mind, it was really interesting to note and the letter he quoted that from the peak in 1996 you had 7,300 US publiccompanies, now we have 4,300 and he feels that total should have grown dramatically not shrunk, so that's a big delta there. Short sellers and activists are pretty different in my mind.
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