Economy drowns online pool guy

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 7:04 p.m. February 4, 2010
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Chris Smith, founder of a once high-flying, Internet-based Gulf Coast pool supply business, is drowning in debt caused by an admitted massive miscalculation in the economy.

 

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