Orgprophet,

That was truly an impressive post, and it is so true. Shorting is indeed the disease, pestulence, and stench that permeates our entire global marketplace.

Your post should be an editorial on the front page of U.S. News, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. If nothing else it would help to get the message across.

Shorting stocks is just such an antithesis of what investing should be all about. It shouldn't be this volatile and stressful for so many families trying to save money for college educations.

One should either get to buy into a company or simply not take part in the company at all. Robbing markets of liquidity on account of shorting is something that I view it as nothing more than "legalized corruption" that the U.S. government is too dumb to put a stop to and too dumb to understand the bad in it. Shorting of stocks should be stopped and declared morally unjust (and thus unconstitutional) during the next presidential term and I mean that 100%.

Below is a story that exemplifies how the market run rampant with greedy people shorting stocks alongside powerful hedge funds operate in today's market:

Once upon a time in a place overrun with monkeys, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.
The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and kept them in a huge cage.
As supply started to diminish, they became harder to catch, so the villagers stopped their effort. The man then announced that he would now pay $20 for each one.
This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again. But soon the supply diminished even further and they were ever harder to catch, so people started going back to their farms and forgot about monkey catching.
The man increased his price to $25 each and the supply of monkeys
became so sparse that it was an effort to even see a monkey, much less catch one. The man now announced that he would buy monkeys for $50!
However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on his behalf. While the man was away the assistant told the villagers. "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has bought. I will sell them to you at $35 each and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each."

The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the monkeys.
They never saw the man nor his assistant nor their money again and once again there were monkeys everywhere.

Incidently ........The early bird gets the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese...


Either way one slices it the world's markets are corrupt and the governments allow the corruption to run rampant even at the detriment of the companies and economies that they are supposed to be protecting ......rather instead they are blind stewards of the rampant corruption and greed. Such a shame.