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Old 03-09-10, 02:20 PM   #22
floundericiousWA
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Originally Posted by pythos View Post
Selling shares does not crash the economy. Short selling does. Look it up. It is a fairly new thing, and has been wreaking havok on the market.
Short selling is NOT new

The degree to which investors can leverage their short sales may be new and is likely what causes a single bad short sale to gash the marketplace since the investor's ineptitude/bad luck is now multiplied by a factor of several million times.
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