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Politics : Sioux Nation

DJT 11.36

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Dec 5 9:30 AM EST

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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (13020)	4/10/2005 5:30:47 AM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) of 361417

Generally the stocks where people have resorted to illegal shorting are small, illiquid and tend to be the worst kind of scams. The sort of stuff you see talked about on A@P's thread. I've never seen the point of shorting a scam ... a good scammer can keep the price of the stock elevated indefinitely. Give me "honest but incompetent" over "crooked but clever" any day. With stocks of any significant market cap/float a fund can always get a borrow from an institution, though it will have to pay for the privilege. There are a couple of old threads on the mechanics of shorting: Subject 15252 Subject 13070

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