Tag: Corona Virus
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Covid-19 Present and Future Prospects
Public health recommendations to limit the spread of Covid-19 are social distancing, avoiding crowds, reducing exposure to closed spaces with recirculation, hand washing, and wearing masks. These are all good. However, often absent in recommendations is an important variable that bears upon the importance of these measures. The variable is the frequency of current infections…
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Is the Securities and Exchange Commission asleep at the wheel?
During the past three weeks, shorting of stocks and indices has increased tenfold to twentyfold. Shorting is selling a stock or index not owned, but presumably “borrowed” from an account of a person or entity. In this way, presumably, the number of shares sold “short” cannot exceed the number of shares available for public trading.…