frelkins comments on Ban the Bear - Less Wrong

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Comment author: frelkins 09 October 2008 03:47:33AM 1 point [-]

Now that the shorting ban is over, the question is did it work? Did it help? Or did it just power-drive the market even lower as traders abandoned longs they would have otherwise kept? And did really increase transaction costs by more than 40%?