Replies to post #79769 on Apple Inc (AAPL)

[WinLoseOrDraw]

Seems like there three main choices:

1. Don't allow institutions to become "too big to fail" with extensive anti-trust type regulation

2. Allow "too big to fail" but regulate the snot out of them to ensure transparency

3. None of the above - accept that bubbles are part of the human experience and that societal bailouts are a post-dated check to pay for the up-front subsidy

All three approaches have their downsides, I'm not sure any one of them is more viable in the long run than any other.

[roni]

Dispelling the 'deregulation' myth...

That sounds like some people trying to perpetrate a fraud on us all.

Appropriate regulation, appropriately applied is important and has been lacking.

Enforcement of existing rules would have been a good starting point.

Excesses lead to swings back in another direction.

Hopefully we'll all survive. I know I will.

[roni]

Yep, don't need no re-regulation

Just getting some that we have enforced would be a good start

“The SEC’s public data say that on any given day over the first three months of this year, there were more than one billion shares that had been sold and failed to deliver (within the allotted 3 days) and that 70% of those fails were concentrated in just 100 companies. That’s a real red flag for the SEC that naked short selling is very widespread, is highly concentrated, and consequently might be being used today to manipulate the price of scores of stocks.”

-Former Deputy Secretary of Commerce Robert Shapiro on CNBC