[RKBA Democrat]

Bad move.

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

They been trying this for 400 years.

[steve86]

Expect the biggest crash since the Great Depression if this goes through — no shorts to cover, none to buy during panics. Of course, a huge phony baloney rally could happen first.

[11th_VA]

Cox finally got the wakeup call ... Being invested in failure is for Democrats ...

[John123]

We are from the government and we are here to help...

Anytime the government interferes with the markets... crap happens... so if no one is shorting... they must all be long... which means more money is chasing after bad stocks... And the next hiccup or big bank that goes bust... the market will crash very, very, very hard...

[Navy Patriot]

Oh, good. Can we ban the DemoRats from talking the economy down too?

[Paul_B]

Good. Now make it permanent.

[Thoreau]

Let’s just put an end to all this and let the government assign prices to the stocks

[Rutles4Ever]

Are they going to ban puts as well? What about call writing? What about marketmakers? What about short-oriented ETF’s?

[tobyhill]

Buy now. The only way it will move is up because like McCain originally said, the fundamentals are ok, it's the money for nothing pushers that will be weeded out.

[montag813]

ALL short selling? Disgusting. Move to China for more financial freedom.

[valkyry1]

Bad move is right.

[DaGman]

Good. Great move.

[oblomov]

So who will buy when the market is crashing?

[A Strict Constructionist]

I thought it was only naked shorts which I also thought were already banned, but not enforced?

[CodeToad]

Shorting is trading, not investing. Shorting is taking capital out of the markets, investing is putting it in. Maybe the feds want money into and not out of the market.

Frankly, I prefer the feds lay off the markets including never using taxpayer money to affect the markets. The feds should only be worried about crimes of fraud and theft in the markets and let the market move where it may.

[VOA]

SEC to temporarily ban short-selling: report

Seeing how "naked" short-selling was banned since the 1930s
(1938?)...please explain why it was a good idea to allow it
starting in early 2007.

This is simply a very neutral request for a justification of
allowing the "naked" version of short selling into the market again.

You'll serve FR well if you explain why it's a good or simply a
"neutral" idea in today's investment environment.

Thanks in advance.

I also request this info because even some of the major people
on CNBC have been saying "What do you mean?" when expert/arcane
terminology is used by the spokes-persons appearing on CNBC
during the last couple of days.

[Zhang Fei]

The fact that the Chinese have never allowed short-selling sure seems to have helped their stock market. (sarcasm)

[RockinRight]

I was under the impression that the intent here is eliminating naked shorts, not all shorts, but what do I know?

[omega4179]

Its unclear but it sounds like they are banning the already illegal Naked Shorting.

[eleni121]

Why bad? If some of the wise guy traders are doing it to make a fast buck artificially driving down stocks-—ban the stupid practice.