Comments on: Dear SEC: we hate the naked shorts… http://www.footnoted.com/sec-stuff/dear-sec-we-hate-the-naked-shorts/ Morningstar's guide to what's hiding in SEC filings Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:16:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Short Sellers Scapegoats for Federal Reserve System http://www.footnoted.com/sec-stuff/dear-sec-we-hate-the-naked-shorts/comment-page-1/#comment-5875 Short Sellers Scapegoats for Federal Reserve System Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:05:55 +0000 http://www.footnoted.com/?p=1986#comment-5875 Stock prices are going down because the Federal Reserve created artificially low interest rates for years to prop up a housing bubble, which led to inflated stock prices, market distortions and malinvestments until this burst. Short sellers and speculators are merely being used as scapegoats for the government to impose further regulations on a free market (sort of) and thereby grant more power to the Federal Reserve System. End the Federal Reserve System to have a truly free market economy, which will correct and purge itself periodically of malinvestments. Stock prices are going down because the Federal Reserve created artificially low interest rates for years to prop up a housing bubble, which led to inflated stock prices, market distortions and malinvestments until this burst.

Short sellers and speculators are merely being used as scapegoats for the government to impose further regulations on a free market (sort of) and thereby grant more power to the Federal Reserve System. End the Federal Reserve System to have a truly free market economy, which will correct and purge itself periodically of malinvestments.

]]> By: eh http://www.footnoted.com/sec-stuff/dear-sec-we-hate-the-naked-shorts/comment-page-1/#comment-5861 eh Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:28:24 +0000 http://www.footnoted.com/?p=1986#comment-5861 This is such a joke. Retail brokerage accounts cannot do naked shorting. So it was the heavy hitters -- the major investment banks, brokerages, and hedge funds -- who themselves were doing it. This is such a joke. Retail brokerage accounts cannot do naked shorting. So it was the heavy hitters — the major investment banks, brokerages, and hedge funds — who themselves were doing it.

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