There’s been a lot of controversy about a practice called “naked short selling.” In normal short-selling, a trader who expects prices to fall will borrow shares of stock and immediately sell them. He must buy shares at some point in the future to give back to the person who lent him the shares that he sold short.
Tag Archives: marketplace
Why Can’t Governments Borrow Forever?
September 29, 2009 – 6:30 am
Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast focuses on the latest news from the markets, the reelection of Angela Merkel in Germany, a discussion on inflation and sucker’s rallies, and the question: why can’t the government just keep borrowing forever?
Volatility and the Markets: Constant Overreaction
August 20, 2009 – 9:32 am
Francis Cianfrocca joins Ben Domenech for the Thursday, August 20th edition of Coffee & Markets, a series of brief morning podcasts on politics and the marketplace. Today’s podcast focuses on the marketplace’s rapid response, volatility and risk, and the new jobless numbers.
Changing Hobbyhorses In Midstream: On Paul Krugman’s Fallacies
August 12, 2009 – 8:51 am
Paul Krugman believes that no sparrow takes flight without government having helped it to flap its wings. His intelligence is matched only by his monomania.
Today’s Job Numbers and the Anniversary of the Financial Crisis
August 7, 2009 – 9:58 am
Today’s podcast concerns the anniversary of the beginning of the financial crisis and the job statistics released this morning: what they mean for the economy, what they mean politically, and whether they mean the current recession is finally coming to an end.
Attack of the Son of Stimulus
July 9, 2009 – 8:30 am
When people talk about “green shoots,” they’re really reacting to signs that the economy has stopped collapsing at such a fast rate, and is now falling more slowly. The end may possibly be in sight, but things may not start getting better for a long time. A second stimulus won’t change that.
Results From the TIPS Auction: How Can We Keep Borrowing So Much Money?
July 6, 2009 – 11:53 am
The big news in finance this week is from the US Treasury, which continues to borrow huge sums to finance its ongoing fiscal deficits, and today’s TIPS auction.
- November 21, 2009 -
MORE LEDGER
ELSEWHERE ON TNL
POLITICS
- Reid’s Massive Health Care Mess
- Jobs: An Economic Problem or a Political Problem?
- Nine Reasons Why the New York City Terror Trials are a Bad Idea
- Is America Becoming More Like China?
- Obamacare vs. the American Entrepreneur
- The Losing Side
- Prosperity and Capitalism After the Berlin Wall
- Is Joe Klein Nuts?
- Democrats Divided on Abortion and Health Care
- Berlin at 20: Neither Impossible Nor Inevitable
MARKET
- Negative Interest Rates, Fed Audits, and Geithner in the Dock
- Retail, Ben Bernanke, and Auditing the Fed
- China, Prosperity, and the Berlin Wall
- Christopher Dodd’s Big Regulation Push
- GDP Grows, Consumer Spending Plummets on the Eve of the Holiday Season
- Is the Recession Over? And AIG’s 100 Cent Payoff
- George Soros’s War on the Free Market
- The Executive Pay Crackdown and Too Big to Fail Policy Explained
- Hank Paulson’s Secret Goldman Sachs Meeting
- The New Home-Buyers’ Big Tax Credit Fraud
BLOGS
- David Broder On The Cost Of Health Care Reform
- Charles Krauthammer On Civilian Trials For Terrorist Suspects
- Of Global Warming And Potential Scientific Fraud
- Obama Steals Football from Children in NFL PSA
- I Realize That People May Be Tired Of Me Pointing This Out . . .
- Bribery
- Surprise! (Trade Policy Edition)
- Health Care “Reform” Will Cost Us
- Lindsey Graham Devastates Eric Holder
- Sino-American Communiqué Failures
EDGE
- Four Seasons of Awesome: Urbaniak on Venture Bros
- The Invention of Lying and Religion
- Gold For Oil and Son of Cash For Clunkers
- Polanski and the Crux of Art and Excess
- Tarantino: Hollywood’s Most Righteous Gentile
- Those Cursed Mets and the Book of Fred
- Why Michael Bay Is So Incredibly Awesome
- Goodell, Vick, and the Unforgiveable Crimes of the NFL
- Baseball’s Big Problem: Bill James on Steroids
- Public Enemies: Michael Mann’s Moral Relativism
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