StrictNon-Conformist

Missing: 200 Million Yahoo! Shares from Last Friday's Annual Meeting

If people were betting on the takeover going through at a price and are losing their shirts because they jumped in for the kill and expectation of making a lot of money in a short time, they're damned fools and deserve to lose that money, udirtyrat. Carl Icahn has earned his loss, and so, too, all the short-term speculators. Of far more concern for Yahoo! are the employees with stock options that they'd like to see around for the long haul, that have little reason to stay.

Believe it or not, Yahoo! isn't losing money: the only thing being lost at Yahoo! right now is investor and employee confidence in them. By the measures of most companies in the world, they're suitably profitable, but when compared to the likes of Google, they seem like they're not doing well.

I'm hoping by your comment that you were one of those short-term fools that lost a lot of money because you counted on something you just can't count on: what people will do. If you can't tolerate the risk, you shouldn't jump into the deep end of the pool with all the sharks that haven't been fed recently. If you can, just shut up about it, because that's the nature of such things: they're inherently risky.