On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:10 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
He was decrying naked short selling for quite a while, while WP insiders like Mantanmoreland were able to squelch him. And now he was right, and they were wrong, at least per this article. And it's egg on our face, for treating the opposing sides in such a one-sided manner.
[Redacted 1] had the point of view that naked short selling was going to destroy the earth. [Redacted 2] had the point of view that it was a legitimate trading strategy.
The reality was somewhere in between. But Wikipedia's article, when I checked it many months ago, basically gave the POV of [Redacted 2].