Banning short selling to protect companies from the coronavirus crash? History suggests it won’t work

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The burden of proof is on those who would interfere in company share markets rather than those who would allow them to find their own level

So in that context of carnage it’s predictable that financial regulators in Rome and Madrid have reached for one of the few levers, short of a total market closure, open to them: a ban on short-selling.

 

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The people of the world bailed out the bankers. Yet when you want them to behave responsibly, no chance. Every catastrophe is an opportunity. Scum.

Hope that happens sooner!! Banning!!!!!

Short selling should be banned many European countries already have.

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