Keith Barron embarked on a share selling campaign, a right that was vigorously defended by many on this board as merely personal financial planning. Little did his defenders realize how right they were. Unfairly, some people do their financial planning with alot more information than the rest .

My memory doesn't take me back quite that far, but I have a feeling that I was one of those with severe, 'foot in mouth' disease. Well it is not the first time that I have had to plead guilty of being stupid. (As my wife so often reminds me).