Short selling......was it to blame?

[sasguru]

Didn’t a fair number of the congregation make this very point at the time to be told that they were wrong and that mob rule, born of ignorance, should apply?

Indeed. Why not make atW the Chancellor and we can have a re-run of the old Soviet system

[TykeMerc]

While short selling may not be wholly responsible for the current economic mess my belief is that it's contributed very heavily to the instability of many companies.

[Alf W]

While short selling may not be wholly responsible for the current economic mess my belief is that it's contributed very heavily to the instability of many companies.

More like the instability of many companies contributed wholly to the short selling activity.

If the bloke in the street wants to play stock markets with the big boys then he shouldn't complain when they nick his sweets occasionally. Luckily for me, when I got my fingers burnt in the dot com crash I was only playing the odd grand here and there.

With share prices swinging about so wildly at the moment there's some quite easy money to be made out there