Date: December 26th, 2008

Restore the uptick rule

26 December, 2008 (11:22) | Capital markets, Innovations, Regulation, Subprime | No comments

Should you be allowed to bet against something you don’t own?   If you make such a bet, should an army of your friends be allowed to pile on and make the same ghoulish bet?
 

We bet your stock is going to fall!
 
Might such a stampede of necromancers have contributed to the meltdown of financial stocks like [...]