All Posts Tagged With: "short selling"
Shoot the Shorts
Rather than indulging in Schadenfreude, we in the United States would do well to apply European lessons to our own troubles.
22Aug2011 | Warren C. Gibson | 11 comments | ContinuedToo Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves
Books about the 2008 financial crisis keep coming, and New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin offers one of the better accounts of the meltdown. Using a large number of interviews, he reconstructs the words and acts of key people during the six months from the near-collapse of Bear Stearns in March to the bankruptcy [...]
24Feb2011 | Chidem Kurdas | 0 comments | ContinuedMarkets and Correction of Error
If money can be made bucking market trends (shorting, etc.), people will have an incentive to uncover, correct, and limit the damage from errors in the market. Corollary: Restrictions on shorting, etc., lock in error and magnify the damage. Isn’t it funny that those who try to make hay out of the imperfection of markets [...]
29Apr2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Long and Short of Short Selling
Short selling is a little-understood, much-maligned tactic by which traders can profit from their belief that a company’s stock is overvalued. Following the financial problems of the last two years, short selling has come under fire, with new or revived regulations proposed to curb the practice. It is unpatriotic, destructive, and destabilizing, say the critics. [...]
5Jan2010 | Warren C. Gibson | 12 comments | Continued-
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