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    Herbalife or death

    The Wall Street war the world’s watching

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    Bad ideas and sacrificial lambs

    Following in the misguided footsteps of market regulators in Britain, the U.S. SEC is instituting a “temporary ban” on short selling in the U.S. markets.  In a week of depressing, frightening bad ideas, mindless grandstanding, and scapegoating, this may stand out as the worst example of panicked non-thinking.