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It is your broker's responsibility to make an "affirmative determination" that shares can be borrowed to short prior to executing the short. That can mean that they get an OK from you that you can borrow the shares, checking a borow list from their clearing firm or checking their own inventory...

I also think this is complete and utter bullshit. Another way the power and money brokers are pulling the strings for their own benefit and at our expense. If short selling is banned it will be so certain groups can unload their longs. Complete and outright explicit manipulation through...

There used to be implicit rigging by financial powerhouses. Now we have expilict rigging by regulators controlled by financial powerhouses. OK, makes sense now.

Short selling is now "financial terrorism." Wow. "Unpatriotic". Total crap. Don't let them take any more rights away from you! We may have to reinstate the rule about marching down to the castle and beheading the king.

Cuomo has been a joke for years. Since his time as head of HUD, his favors for friends of him and Dad. A snake politician to the core. He sees the opportunity for spotlight and is getting in front of it.

No doubt they should do that if they feel it will benefit them. They should not however, go on TV pounding the table about "prederatory short selling" when they do not have evidence of it. That is rumor mongering to the long side and is illegal I believe.

Here's an article you might like: http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/amerman/2008/0917.html

Did you see the head of CalSTERS on CNBC just now? Exactly how is it that he knows that short selling which is legal BTW, is the cause of the declines? When Erin asked him specifically if he knew who was doing it he said no. What evidence are these guys going on? Is it possible they are...

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Its kind of funny to read the commentary from 5 months ago. Its like the same discussion could have taken place last week! But for real this time!!

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I think you guys have made some good points about MS out of options to do it themselves so they involve the SEC. Short selling should not impact the business operations of any company unless they have credit based on the price. There is centralized clearing in the U.S. its called DTCC. The...

I have to agree, 15,000 sounds like an absurd number.

very good article.

You can short the ADRs he mentions above or buy puts on them here in the US.

sorry Doc, I've only been on this board four months and I can see right through your AE schtick. Just tone it down if you can help it, it wears thin. That's not to say the market won't trend down from here though. We'll see about that one. :confused:

Go for it.

Celebration is a town built and operated by Disney. Its very expensive and from what I understand you don't get much for your money. There's not much of a business district there either so unless you work for Disney or telecommute or trade or what have you, its difficult to earn income. And...