21-01-2009, 04:30 PM
The market rumour is that the FSA is going to ban short selling again.
Well okay.
Only a few billion were knocked off stock price yesterday to the taxpayers detriment, so no real harm done then -- and the decision to allow naked shorting to recommence was clearly in the interest of running an "orderly market".
If Sid james were alive today he'd make a "Carry On" film about this. How about "Carry On Speculating"? Or "Carry On Creaming It Off"? :eviltongue:
Well okay.
Only a few billion were knocked off stock price yesterday to the taxpayers detriment, so no real harm done then -- and the decision to allow naked shorting to recommence was clearly in the interest of running an "orderly market".
If Sid james were alive today he'd make a "Carry On" film about this. How about "Carry On Speculating"? Or "Carry On Creaming It Off"? :eviltongue:
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14
