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there are examples - in China you can't short sell and their market perfectly went down 70%

where did you get they are viable? they are insolvent they lied for a year about their finances, they were provided all kind of support and still they are insolvent and bankrupt banning shorting won't prevent those companies from being bankrupts

makloda what about current situation? AIG begged for 85$ bln but their current price is just 5$ bln they could easily obtain those money any moment and buy back 100% shares if naked short selling was involved they would have to cover for the price AIG wanted 100$ share, 1000$ share...

I guess he was a Fed member during Greenspan times moreover he was the guy who really pushed all those easy money he was worried about deflation in 2002 and he wanted to deliver money with helicopters even with rates about 1%

let's see - for example bear sterns cost $150 and shorts start selling it if you company is OK and you don't have other problems than short selling wait till shares 1$ and start buying back on the open market when you have 50% shares take company private where is the problem...

yesterday cut was 100% baked in it was proved already the problem is not high rates

Hey, do you understand that in addition to assets there are liabilities and they are probably higher than 1 trillion also until those assets are not sold we don't really know how much they cost probably significantly less than 1 trillion so if someone is robbed it's FED I don't have...

I guess nothing will happen there are a lot of insurance companies

the economy has fundamental flaws which can not be fixed short term consumer part of economy must be significantly low, finance service economy must shrink, manufacturing must come back do not forget wars that drain resources and bail out psychology will not let this economy to survive...

Really? Maybe it's better to start how wonderful are things are in Iraq and Afghanistan USA is the worst aggressor of the modern times Even if you don't like China they haven't done anything comparing to USA

Yo're a strange guy All terrorist organization and regimes were created by US - Taliban, Al qaeda, Iran - all this was done by US and current Russia is created by US greed and dependance on oil. You're right here by again - all those are USA creations so the world can just be happy when...

oh, yeah declare war to Russians and send 1M troops to Georgia it will take just one nuclear shot from Russians do you truly believe USA will take a risk to start war with Russians? Nuclear superpower USA can just talk - as they talk about inflation, economic growth etc. nothing real And...

I guess it's in the range 0.5-1m bpd Anyone have exact numbers? It might be nice pop in oil on Monday

devaluation means government is unable to repay its debts using available resources so it prints money to close financial hole and devalues currency

US dollar is not fluctuating now - it's being devaluated and yes from 1995 till 2000 that was a benefit for debt holders and that caused capital inflows, high economy growth, and stock market rise current devaluation is a hidden default

As US can print money they will never become a bankrupt Although I consider 40% dollar devaluation as a default on 40% of debt As anyone who hold US debt - and those are mostly foreigners now - lost 40% during the last 6 years

assests are down 20%, every dollar in GDP growth is financed with 5$ in debt, dollar is down 40% and stock market is crashing, financial system is insolvent, inflation is highest in 25 years do you mean this by saying US is in great shape? so please, give us a look I would be really...

US trade deficit is around 6% GDP which is not sustainable but US too big too fail, you should know although it may change any moment to too big to save

are you joking? US is bankrupt now And the world just don't need any more dollars. Russia has diversified from dollars, arabs will follow And US will not change fuels, it will change from fuels to no fuels from cars to bicycles if lucky

Fundamentally USD$ just can't stregthen. It might be intermediate trend like we had in 2005 but eventually USD will collapse again and again and rate differential will make it just worse. even if Australia cuts 0.25% what will change? Healthy 5% premium still here And I think oil just...