Ori2 comments on Ban the Bear - Less Wrong

1 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 September 2008 06:14PM

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Comment author: Ori2 19 September 2008 09:13:52PM 0 points [-]

The problem with short selling is that it adds another dimension to buy and sell, the buy side does not have the same instrument. Not to mention naked shorting which is even worse, that way you don't even have to borrow the shares before you short them. Short selling is a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.