Mark Cuban, billionaire owner NBA team Dallas Mavericks, runs a couple of interesting web sites. In July of 2006, he started ShareSleuth, an online publication that exposes fraud in the stock market. It's surely worth checking out. More recently Cuban has launched BailoutSleuth, an online … [Read more...] about Bank bailout money goes to CEO bonuses
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Our free(ish) market becomes less free with the ban of short selling
A couple of weeks ago, the SEC illegalized a type of investing that makes a market what it is - short selling. Simply put, a person can bet on the market going up by "going long" and buying securities in hopes of selling them for a higher price at a later date. Long positions can be leveraged by … [Read more...] about Our free(ish) market becomes less free with the ban of short selling