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Vilifying short sellers
Tensions between Main Street & Wall Street date to the founding of the Republic.
September 22, 2009
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By Neil Wilson   During the recent financial crisis, comparisons with the 1930s were common. Short sellers were blamed for the crash—then as now. But it has taken Bob Sloan, the former head of prime brokerage and equity finance among other senior

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