Importantly, we had assumed risk in the deal and we lost money, just like the other two long investors.

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Do we feel bad because we have lost money on our cans at home?

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Here's how we lost the money.

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Several years ago I was complaining to a financial advisor that we had lost so much money in the past several months.

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And in January 2009 our UK distributor went into voluntary liquidation forcing us to look elsewhere ... we lost a lot of money.

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We've lost a lot of money.

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We've already lost a huge sum of money.

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Not only had he competed unfairly with us legit money managers, but we've even lost a few clients to his steady rate of return's siren call.

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"There's also no money, my husband lost his job and we don't know what to do, " Shadia said.

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So why do we continue to romanticize the story of an investor who lost as much money as he ever made?

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"We were concerned that if we went through another three or four months in the courts the amount of money lost may never have been made up, " he said.

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