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SaltiTaralli 11 points ago +13 / -2

Short sales aren't criminal but perhaps they should be.

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Elcycs 6 points ago +7 / -1

Regular non-illegal short selling provides an important check on the market that I'm not qualified to explain. I read about it in depth years ago and it made sense, but it's been too long and use it or lose it...

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Scuffers 13 points ago +13 / -0

I have read many such articles, and basically they are all trying to justify a practice that serves no benefit to society no matter how they dress it up.

if a stock is over-valued, in time it will show up as such and the investors will dump it, you don't need a greedy shorter pushing the point to make a profit.

On a wider argument, there's a case to suggest investment banking is also a complete waste of time and had no benefit to society.

I'll point out I am not a communist, and I am all in favour of proper capitalism, it’s the cassino market practices I am against/

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Big_damn_zero 1 point ago +1 / -0

I was gonna say...if you don't understand the topic enough to explain it to someone else, how do you know the person explaining it to you isn't full of shit?