We couldn’t help but notice the continuing bray of gurus who point out that the smart money is shorting stocks like crazy. Hate to sound like a broken record, but shorting stocks would only qualify as smart if you were to assume that Wall Street plays a fair game and is not really made up of thugs in three-piece suits.
Investment talking heads do not help the average investor one little bit with the “short stocks” mantra. Scratch some of the slime off the surface of the stock market and look beneath. There be dragons, connivers, and scoundrels of all sorts feasting on the bones of people who follow stock pickers. Trust the SEC to rap their knuckles? Do you also believe Santa will save your home from foreclosure? Or that the Easter Bunny will wrap eternal world peace in a pretty little bow and leave it on the United Nations doorstep?
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