[lbo-talk] Fed kicks it up another quarter

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Sep 21 07:47:43 PDT 2005


Charles Brown wrote:


>Don't the most sophisticated financiers make money on falling stock
>markets as well as rising, and on financial crises too.

They can, but short selling is risky, and kind of disreputable. (Short sellers are like Wall Street's gangsta rappers.) More people make more money on the way up. But didn't Rhett Butler say you can make a fortune more quickly when something's falling apart?

Doug



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