Nov 11, 2009, 10:34am
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$$$ David Trone: Ban the short-sellers. [Deal Journal]
$$$ Deals: Even Holding the Beer, a Big Week
In our M&A Roundup for the week ended July 13, Dow buying Rohm & Haas leads the way, followed by two U.S. purchases by European firms. [CFO.com]
$$$ A Day In The Life Of A Former Investment Banker [Mergers and Inquisitions]
$$$ Are you "that guy"? [Details]
$$$ NYSE: Rumors are Now "Material Corporate News" [Portfolio]
Sep 15, 2009, 2:22pm
I sense some judgment from the Bloomberg reporter here re:...
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Sep 15, 2009, 2:00pm
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Sep 09, 2009, 11:27am
Goldman Sachs partner managing director Richard Kimball Jr. apparently got...
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Posted by guest , Jul 14, 2008 5:46PM
"You have destination-related car stickers like MV, NTK, PVT, HMP, or NPT. "
My head is about to explode.
Posted by Anal_yst , Jul 14, 2008 5:56PM
jesus how did they come up with 50 question, kinda like they combined about 5 different types of "that guy" into one though...
Posted by guest , Jul 14, 2008 5:56PM
And its ACK, not NTK
Posted by guest , Jul 14, 2008 6:02PM
What are destination related car stickers?
Posted by guest , Jul 14, 2008 6:05PM
Oh shit, Im "that guy" Thank you so much DB for that link.
Posted by guest , Jul 14, 2008 6:07PM
My "that guy" temperature is "warm," much like my red, embarrassed face right now.
Posted by guest , Jul 14, 2008 6:53PM
I unchecked everything i was marginal on and still got scorching. GODAMNNIT
Posted by JorgeCad , Jul 14, 2008 6:55PM
My thoughts, cut the hands off short-sellers, better still cut the hands off all traders, better still cut the hands off all capitalists ... hmmm running out of scape-goats for the economy
Posted by Finnegan , Jul 14, 2008 7:09PM
Isn't banning short sellers like performing fellatio on stock prices, creating an artificial continuous rise that will eventually be our next explosion?
dot.com bubble, housing bubble, stock bubble.
I am not really that guy. I am "cool".
Posted by guest , Jul 14, 2008 7:14PM
short selling and margin buying should be banned.
the problem is that brokerage firms never saw a commission that they didn't like.
this reminds me of that feeding the monster cliche.
Posted by guest , Jul 14, 2008 7:21PM
Short selling is immoral and should be made illegal.
Posted by guest , Jul 14, 2008 7:29PM
This is bent. I think I answered 4 or 5 as "yes" and all of a sudden, I'm someone I don't know. WTF? Bess...ya know....sometimes you really, really piss me off!
The Other Guy from Delaware
Posted by AJ , Jul 14, 2008 7:40PM
So short-selling should be banned because its not nice to bet on someone's failure? Can we also ban investing in the companies that are implicitly dependent on another company's failure? No investing in the telephone, that's betting on the telegraph's failure... No investing in google, that's betting on yahoo's failure... and we definitely have to ban investing in healthcare, that's betting on people getting sick which is truly immoral
Posted by guest , Jul 14, 2008 7:45PM
AJ - there are a million arguments to support the concept of short selling.
how you managed not to come across one is mind baffling.
Posted by beentheredonethat , Jul 14, 2008 7:48PM
Why not be totally thorough about what they propose. With this kind of market volatility, we should just ban all sales until things calm down a bit. No more than say, 18 months. Just long enough until people remember the difference between child and adult.
Posted by guest , Jul 14, 2008 7:54PM
hi beentheredonethat,
if the speculators and hedgefunds have their way, a whole bunch of pretty smart people who have their money custodied at lehman are about to find out what it's like not be able to sell.
a ban of sorts, if you will.
weeeeeeeeeee~!!! where do you hide?
jpm?
Posted by guest , Jul 14, 2008 8:08PM
AJ, I'm a 100% free markets guy, but I think you somehow just convinced me that short selling is bad and should be banned.
Posted by guest , Jul 14, 2008 8:27PM
Short people are bad and immoral, especially the 5-foot tall female "spinners".
Posted by guest , Jul 14, 2008 8:32PM
@8:27 - Yeah, that may be true, dude...but fun, eh?
Posted by guest , Jul 14, 2008 9:43PM
Damn...Jesse Ventura isn't running for Senate.
Posted by thatguydrinksbeer , Jul 14, 2008 11:08PM
Err
Posted by guest , Jul 14, 2008 11:59PM
What a weird coincidence that TOGFD showed up the same day TGFD came back.
From the short clip I saw on CNN, Jesse Ventura will run for the Senate if he has a divine visitation.
Posted by AJ , Jul 15, 2008 9:08AM
Yeah, that's what I get for posting on no sleep. I retract my previous ramblings.
Posted by girl , Jul 15, 2008 9:53AM
apparently I'm "That Guy" too
WTF