NO QUARTER FOR CORRUPTION (Focussing on The Fed./FRBS)

[bartermania]

From ThomsonFN.com: "One of the agreements the broker would like you to sign when you open a margin account specifies that you will let the broker borrow the securities in your account for its own purposes. You will never know when this happens, and your securities are safely tracked so you can sell them anytime. In other words, you aren't affected by this policy except that these are your securities that the broker is using for its own purpose, such as borrowing them to fill a short position in another account. This is troubling to some people, and you should know that you don't have to sign that part of the margin agreement. We don't have any problem signing it but some of you might, and you should know you don't have to agree to it."
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I added the bold.

IMO...all forms of shorting needs to go away.