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Consider: how many businesses would be in business tomorrow if they announced today to all their users and customers how much cash they had left on hand. How about the ones that are operating in the red, should they all tell everyone?

In the end I respect that they stop it at the very moment they could no longer pay instead of owing everyone one hour of work.

Without more information, I would say they handled it okay.

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Maybe you wouldn't, but this is why financial reporting is important and often a requirement. These people bet on someone else's gambit and lost, but according to all the signs they could see, things were sparkling.

I am not saying I would not. I would have probably acted 180 degrees differently, but that does not mean she did not make the best decision for everyone involved.

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