In news that’s sure to make A-Train happy; or at least allow him to say “I told you so”:
SSRN-Shackling Short Sellers: The 2008 Shorting Ban by Ekkehart Boehmer, Charles Jones, Xiaoyan Zhang
In September 2008, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) surprised the investment community by adopting an emergency order that temporarily banned [...]


