On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:10 PM, <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
He was decrying naked short selling for quite a while,
while WP insiders
like Mantanmoreland were able to squelch him. And now he was right, and
they
were wrong, at least per this article. And it's egg on our face, for
treating
the opposing sides in such a one-sided manner.
[Redacted 1] had the point of view that naked short selling was going to
destroy the earth. [Redacted 2] had the point of view that it was a
legitimate trading strategy.
The reality was somewhere in between. But Wikipedia's article, when I
checked it many months ago, basically gave the POV of [Redacted 2].