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Take the Right Positions Against Banks, Brokers

By Jim Cramer

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 If you're going to shoot at the king, you're going to have to kill him. And those who shot at the homebuilders and the mortgage companies and the brokers and banks in these last few weeks failed to kill the kings. So when we got some mortgage number that was positive -- even though it might not turn out to be, because you can apply all you want to get a mortgage, you just might not get one -- you can feel the squeeze. Plus, and I have said it again and again, I see people being squeezed in common stock. They are shorting KB Home and Pulte and Beazer in common! Common, for heaven's sake! Same with RAIT and the Indymac. These not only can't be shorted down here without a snapback rally if nothing bad happens, they can't even be borrowed. When will these rallies end? When...

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