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Thanks for post. It’s really

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:58:00 +0000

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Thanks for post. It’s really informative stuff.
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I'd go you one better and

DF — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:34:08 +0000

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I'd go you one better and call it surreal.

you're 100% right, DF. Legal

Deadman — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:10:00 +0000

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you're 100% right, DF. Legal short-selling does provide a valuable purpose in the market, and the decision to ban it was just a bad, reactionary move that did nothing to solve our immense and complicated underlying problems.

now they want to move away from mark-to-market accounting. It's amazing to hear people who espouse the beauty and power of the free market and rail against regulation now calling for bailouts and short-selling bans and the end of mark-to-market and a hundred different other free market-bastardization moves.

My understanding of this

DF — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:11:10 +0000

In reply to Short post on short selling and a short-term bottom ...

My understanding of this isn't as complete as I'd like, but I'm under the impression that shorting has a valuable purpose in the market. It seems that the recent ban on shorts was terribly reactionary and that short-selling in general was given a bad name by the prevalence of naked shorts (which I thought were supposed to be illegal).