http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/douglasfraser/2008/11/blank_checked.html en-gb 30 Thu 03 Dec 2009 18:27:22 GMT+1 A feed of user comments from the page found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/douglasfraser/2008/11/blank_checked.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/douglasfraser/2008/11/blank_checked.html?page=0#comment0 Although you have used quotes from my questions in over four places in this piece you have totally missed the point of them.First, we were not all "stroppy small investors". Fewer than half the board members have larger holdings in the company than my own. My losses are significant.Second, you have utterly missed the point of my Galbraith quote. In the Great Crash he refers to bankers buying their own worthless stock. "Men have been swindled by other men on a great many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves"This is precisely what Blank did. At the end of the meeting he committed his board to a full takeup. He had, at last publication, 200K shares. He is committed to buying over 86000 more at £1.733. When the meeting closed the share price had fallen to £1.185. Do the maths. I was trying to warn board members not to be silly. Tony Peterson Fri 21 Nov 2008 10:33:59 GMT+1