Do not listen to the older congress people trying to act like they are going to heavily restrict short selling.

They are going after retail investors.

Man I hate these crypt keeper looking politicians we have.

Curious, why does short selling bother you? If a stock is overvalued, what is one supposed to do?

There is way more momentum behind irrational buying than short selling. Most hedge funds are net long by a wide margin.

You realize when you gamble against a team, you are selling them short? It is the same thing in the market, you are simply betting against a company.

Curious, why does short selling bother you? If a stock is overvalued, what is one supposed to do?

There is way more momentum behind irrational buying than short selling. Most hedge funds are net long by a wide margin.

You realize when you gamble against a team, you are selling them short? It is the same thing in the market, you are simply betting against a company.

Do not listen to the older congress people trying to act like they are going to heavily restrict short selling.

They are going after retail investors.

Man I hate these crypt keeper looking politicians we have.

Curious, why does short selling bother you? If a stock is overvalued, what is one supposed to do?

There is way more momentum behind irrational buying than short selling. Most hedge funds are net long by a wide margin.

You realize when you gamble against a team, you are selling them short? It is the same thing in the market, you are simply betting against a company.

I don’t like aggressively and actively bankrupting companies.

Where would Tesla be if the short sellers succeeded in destroying that company multiple times?

Not sure if serious, but it's not supposed to be a gambling mechanism. The stock market has a purpose, and it is to allocate and provide capital and allow for investment in various companies. Short selling adds no value and has the potential to destroy the stock price of businesses.

I trade options, including shorts, all the time. But I'm not under the impression that it is good. It's just gambling, and unfortunately it's gambling that can come at the expense of other companies and investors.

If a stock is overvalued, just don't buy it. Seems simple enough.

I also don't necessarily advocate banning short positions, but let's not act like it is some necessary element of a functioning market.

I started saying this a few years ago here, and my observation has become more valid with each passing day: We are in the midst of a massive legitimacy crisis wherein our cornerstone social institutions and their leading figures are held in complete and utter contempt by vast sectors of the population.

From the perspective of political economy, this means that the neoliberal order is dead, but (as Zizek says) it just doesn't know it yet. Neoliberalism has failed, but nothing else has succeeded, so the neoliberal elites continue to operate as if "everything is generally good" (to borrow a Brickism) even as all that they once considered solid melts into air. It has become fashionable within the non-corporate media to say that the U.S. is approaching a state of civil war. But such a prognosis overstates the coherence of the current moment. Our society is not cleanly divided along a single line but is instead fractured into a kaleidoscope of antagonistic identities, competing interests and shifting alliances. This is simultaneously the end of something and the start of something, but nobody knows what just yet.