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Matt Taibbi and John Carney on Naked Short Selling

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.

- November 21, 2009 -

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