Phil Trupp

Naked Short Selling Is a Phoney Problem

For years the shorts and naked shorts have pulled value from the markets and from the economy and the results are painfully obvious. Shorting to bankruptcy is, indeed, the dream. As a pricing tool, shorting has become vicious in this predatory environment. The position of being a fulcrum in the process of arbitrage has long been abandoned. We now have wolf packs with a refined taste for blood.