Posted AT 9:02 PM EST on 19/09/08
Authorities may be selling short the short sellers, but it's working
Mention “short sellers,” and most investors conjure up an image of nasty and brutish characters, hunched over computer screens and cackling happily as their market machinations ruin companies.
Think Danny DeVito or Michael Douglas as corporate raiders, in the films
Other People's Money and
Wall Street.
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