{"id":194072,"date":"2008-10-27T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/27\/japanese-move-to-restrict-short-selling\/"},"modified":"2008-10-27T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T00:02:00","slug":"japanese-move-to-restrict-short-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/27\/japanese-move-to-restrict-short-selling\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Move to Restrict Short Selling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not surprised by <a href=\"http:\/\/bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=aobf_rpm1o9M\">their temporary ban on short naked sales<\/a> and additional rules on reporting and transparency on shorting.<\/p>\n<p>What surprises me is why someone selling something that they <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">don&#8217;t have<\/span> to someone else is legal in the first place, unless you are a completely incompetent acolyte of Ayn Rand who believes that <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">anything<\/span> done by an investor is capitalism in its highest form, like Alan &#8220;Bubbles&#8221; Greenspan&#8230;.Wait, now I get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not surprised by their temporary ban on short naked sales and additional rules on reporting and transparency on shorting. What surprises me is why someone selling something that they don&#8217;t have to someone else is legal in the first place, unless you are a completely incompetent acolyte of Ayn Rand who believes that anything &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}