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Investors: Beware the Quackery of Economic Goats, Whitewashers and Charlatans

Ann Pettifor | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Carry-Trade, Unemployment, Jim O'Neill, Finance, Stock Market, Wages, Global Trade, Abby Joseph Cohen, Iceland Financial Crisis, Frederick Mishkin, Short Selling, Bubbles, Business News
Ann Pettifor

Today -- as global trade lies dead, as unemployment rises, as wages and incomes plummet, as US consumption and investment falls -- share prices zoom upwards and commodity prices rock.

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Short-Selling (VIDEO): Did It Contribute To The Market's Collapse?

Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Short-Selling, Stocks, Market Crash, Stock Market, Selling Stocks, Steven Figlewski, Business News

Let's get our bearings here. What is short-selling? NYU Professor of Finance Steven Figlewski can explain: "You sell the stock with the expectation, ...

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Goldman Sachs Defends Trading Practices: Dark Pools, Flash Trading, Short Selling

Telegraph | James Quinn, US Business Editor | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Economy, Financial Reform, Dark Pools, Regulation, Bankers, Short Selling, Goldman, Investors, Goldman Sachs, Investing, Flash Trading, Wall Street, Finance, Trading Practices, Sec, Trading, Financial Regulation, Business News

In a document handed to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the investment bank asserts that such practices, some of which the SEC is loo...

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How to Sell Your Maidenhead

E. Jean Carroll | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Virgin, Marketing, Short Selling, Money, Bubbles, Sex, Dennis-Hof, Bunny Ranch, Advice Column Elle, Advice Column, Selling Your Virginity, Living News
E. Jean Carroll

Why should I waste my purity on a "meaningful" college boyfriend or a saggy sugar daddy when I can receive a pot of gold all in one go?

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Wall Street Is Right -- This Time

John Standerfer | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business

Read More: High-Frequency Trading, Chuck Schumer, Flash Orders, Stock Market, Short Selling Ban, Paul Krugman, Sec, Short Selling, Charles Schumer, Flash-Orders, Wall Street, Business News
John Standerfer

In this post-Madoff environment, where the SEC needs all the credibility it can muster, it's critical that the agency not provide a knee-jerk response to every whim of the media and politicians.

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Roiling On The Rivers Of Real Estate

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Attorneys, Mortgage Crisis, Speculators, Real Estate, Short Selling, Housing Slump, Housing Crisis, Foreclosure News, Business News
Lita Smith-Mines

There's definitely a bottom to the real estate market, but the bottom is not clearly visible through yesterday's floating wreckage and today's murky transactions.

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Stiglitz And Chanos Argue For Short Selling (WATCH)

The Huffington Post | Cara Parks | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Jim Chanos, Roosevelt Institute, Joseph Stiglitz, Financial Crisis, Short Selling, Business News

Scroll down for video Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Jim Chanos, president of Kynikos Associates, one of the largest short selling...

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Short Seller Goes Long on the Future

Dan Dorfman | Posted 07.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Wilson, Donations, Short Selling, Wall Street, Charity, Business News
Dan Dorfman

Over the last 10 years Robert Wilson has given away about $500 million to various charities and he figures he has at least another $100 million to go.

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SEC chief says new short-selling rules a priority

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 06.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Mary Schapiro Short Selling, Short Selling Sec, Sec Short Selling, Short Selling, Shorting, Business News

WASHINGTON — The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday she is making the issue of new rules restricting short-selling a pr...

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Short Sellers Returns: Selloff Of Bank Stocks In Wake Of Stress Tests

Bloomberg | Edgar Ortega and Elizabeth Hester | Posted 06.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Short Selling Bank Stocks, Sec-Short-Sales, Short Selling, Selling Short, Business News

May 4 (Bloomberg) -- Short sellers, the bane of Wall Street executives last year, are back. The number of Citigroup Inc. shares borrowed and sold s...

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S.E.C. Proposes New Curbs On Short-Selling

New York Times | ZACHERY KOUWE | Posted 05.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Short-Selling, SEC Short-Selling, Sec, Business News

Seeking to restore investor confidence in the markets, securities regulators made several proposals on Wednesday that would restrict investors from be...

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SEC: Short Selling Curbs Out For Comment

Reuters | Rachelle Younglai and Karey Wutkowski | Posted 05.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Uptick Rule, Curbing Short Selling, Short Selling, Reinstating Uptick Rule, Short Sellers, Business News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously on Wednesday to issue proposed curbs on short selling, including...

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Uptick Rule: SEC Considers Reinstatement

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.09.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — Federal regulators opened a public debate Wednesday over ways to restrict trades that bet against a stock, as investors and lawmake...

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SEC: Short-Selling Rules May Be In The Works

bloomberg.com | Posted 05.04.2009 | Business

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April 3 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is considering dictating when traders can bet that stocks will fall, after lawmaker...

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Stop the Short Sellers

Amy Ephron | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Short-Selling, Goldman Sachs, Ban on Short-Selling, Uptick Rule, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street Crisis, Financial Crisis, Business News
Amy Ephron

Not to sound like Pollyanna but it's time for some old-fashioned values and common sense. Invest in something you can believe in. Don't create a toxic environment where people can profit from failure and loss.

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Samantha Bee Explains Short Selling (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 04.17.2009 | Comedy

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Since the economic downturn, everyone has been talking about short-selling, a practice that bets on the failure of American institutions. It has been ...

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At Last, Steve Forbes and I Agree

Kay Koplovitz | Posted 04.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Short Selling, Mark to Market Accounting, Stock Market, Steve Forbes, Economy, Economic Crisis, Banking Crisis, Banks, Wall Street Journal, Business News
Kay Koplovitz

Get rid of onerous mark to market accounting rules, institute the uptick rule for short sellers and enforce rules for naked short selling

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Morgan Stanley's 13% Payout Offer To Short Ford Stock (EXCLUSIVE)

Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 04.05.2009 | Business

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Morgan Stanley was offering Ford shareholders a highly unusual deal on Monday. Two days before Ford announced a major debt restructuring that diluted...

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Short Sellers Moving On To "Safe" Companies

247wallst.com | Douglas A. McIntyre | Posted 12.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Where Are the Short Sellers Going, Finance, Economy, Financials, Financial Crisis, Short Selling, Short Selling Financials, Shorting, Business News

Short sellers are still betting that financial shares will fall but they have boldly moved into shares of companies which are considered healthy, thos...

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South Dakota's Bid To Take Over For The SEC And Other Ballot Measures

Wall Street Journal | Dionne Searcey and Easha Anand | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Sec, Naked Shorting, Finance, Economy, South Dakota Naked Shorting Bill, Short Selling Ban, Financial Crisis, Naked Shorting Ban, South Dakota Short Selling Ban, South Dakota, Short Selling, Business News

Perhaps no state has tapped into the current zeitgeist better than South Dakota, which proposes banning a maneuver some federal officials say contribu...

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What Is A Naked Short?: Short-Selling Definitions

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 11.09.2008 | Business

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During the present economic crisis, the American public has been pelted with terms like "credit default swap" and "naked shorting," which are enough t...

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Short-Selling Ban Expiring: Did It Change Anything?

DealBook | Posted 11.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Short-Selling, Sec, Stocks, Economy, Banks, Short-Selling Ban, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Business News

Few expect their return, on its own, to spark another precipitous plunge in the stock market. Financial shares have plunged 23 percent since the ban w...

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Some Firms Request To Be Removed From Short-Sell Ban List

Clusterstock | John Carney | Posted 10.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Short-Selling, Finance, Greenlight Capital, Personal Finance, Short-Selling Ban, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Short-Selling Ban List, Business News

The no-short-selling list created by the Securities and Exchange Commission continues to change, as do the rules themselves. On Monday Diamond Hill In...

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WSJ Editorial Board Hits McCain For Cox Threat: "Deeply Unfair ... Un-Presidential"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Securities and Exchange Commission, Mccain Wsj Editorial, Mccain Economic Plan, Mccain Sec, Sec, Mccain Fire Sec Chair, Short Selling, McCain Economics, Mccain Chris Cox, McCain Economic Crisis, Mccain Fire Chris Cox, Politics News

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board finds John McCain's sudden economic policy shifts less than inspiring: John McCain has made it ...

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Govt trading ban could have unintended results

AP | MARCY GORDON and STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 10.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Treasury Department, Christopher Cox, Sec, Short Selling, Short Selling Ban, US Short Selling Ban, Shorting Ban, Shorting Financials, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Personal Finance, Banks, Business News

WASHINGTON — The government's unprecedented move Friday to ban people from betting against financial stocks might be a salve for the market's tu...

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