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Originally Posted by red-beard View Post
It's just a trading company. Unless you have lots of cash sitting in an "account" you should be fine. Unless of course you have stock in e*trade....
Not true. That is what they started as, but they do investment banking.

If they wanted to be leveraged in their long positions on sub-prime MBSes, where do you think they borrowed the money from? Customer accounts...
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