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TheDebbieDee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 02:20 PM Original message |
Naked Short Selling! What it is and how it's killing our soldiers! |
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katusha (592 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
1. wikipedia link on practice |
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w8liftinglady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 02:29 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. thank you for that link |
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oldnslo (222 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
3. This should qualify as a capital crime, with deathrow results. n/t |
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dems_rightnow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
4. It's not the short-sellling |
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w8liftinglady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 03:10 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. reading this banter between two investors....I don't think so |
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w8liftinglady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 03:12 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. and here |
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w8liftinglady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 03:15 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. and here |
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dems_rightnow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 03:17 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Nothing there re short-sellers |
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WhiteTara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 03:18 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. the official story |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 03:10 PM Response to Original message |
6. I don't understand: how do you counterfeit a hedge fund? |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 03:31 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. You hire Chris Cox |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 05:04 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Who buys what "doesn't exist"? |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 05:23 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. They don't know. |
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natrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 06:15 PM Response to Reply #12 |
21. plus the 100x leverage they were allowed makes it particularly obscene |
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gravity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
11. This is bullshit |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
13. Remember $150 oil, how much of it actually existed? Answer? Not a drop. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
14. What does "Quantity (Fails)" mean? |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 05:26 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Force Protection's problem is they're not very big |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 06:02 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Still seems no-one can explain how naked short selling caused them a problem |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 10:19 PM Response to Reply #19 |
26. Two questions here; I shall answer both |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-02-09 12:28 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. So does 'quantity (fails)' directly measure the amount of naked short selling? |
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bertman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-02-09 02:18 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. So, jmowreader, if I'm reading your comments correctly, if I wanted to hamstring a |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 03:45 PM Response to Original message |
15. Wall Street is full of nothing but a bunch of gawd damn disgusting crooks! |
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natrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 06:18 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. the politicians who enabled them are worse-bill clinton,dodd,schumer, frank etc etc |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 09:19 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. My dad always said that ALL politicians were crooks, so if the shoe fits... |
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DeSwiss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
20. Excellent, and yet.... |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 07:32 PM Response to Original message |
23. this is idiotic. if the shorts are wrong, BUY like crazy and they'll get screwn |
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the other one (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-01-09 08:16 PM Response to Original message |
24. Drivel. Ending the war would save lives too. |
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Still Sensible (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-02-09 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
29. Short selling by hedge funds has destroyed more than one company |
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Are_grits_groceries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-02-09 06:28 PM Response to Original message |
30. When we were in the middle of economic hysteria |
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