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A comment on The $2B Mall Rats. Parent comment
Why should it be illegal?
One might make an argument in case of naked short selling, but even that is tedious at best.
> social discipline ... death ... kill ... robber-baron capitalism ... lobbying ... vampirically suck the remaining wealth out of troubled areas
With this choice of emotionally loaded words, I think you want to make a moral or political argument, not a legal or financial one.
Naked short selling is fraud.
Why should it be illegal?
One might make an argument in case of naked short selling, but even that is tedious at best.
> social discipline ... death ... kill ... robber-baron capitalism ... lobbying ... vampirically suck the remaining wealth out of troubled areas
With this choice of emotionally loaded words, I think you want to make a moral or political argument, not a legal or financial one.