Yes, and you won’t see this in any newspaper. This is straight from the SEC (securities and exchange commission.) Yes US corporations can short their own stock. Do you people understand the implications of this ?? This is huge, this means every stock broker is ultimately mob related. Has anyone heard the term “pump and dump”, well thats the whole US stock market. And thats why people are not staying in stocks for the long term. The truth is you shouldn’t, especially now that I have made you aware of this. All of the stock brokers and their families will rot in hell. No lie, these people are stealing. When ever a person buys a stock, they should have the same warning that cigarettes have, corporations can short their stock. Which means if a stock has reached what the company feels is a fair evaluation thats it, anything over that means stock brokers have done a great job selling this company but it really isn’t worth it. Awe people, this is so bad. Corporations can steal from us so easily. This is just terrible, it’s counter productive. In my opinion its illegal. No way should a corporation be able to do this. Please write your politicians asking them to stop this practice. It allows corporations to steal your money. It means a company can sit on its butt, and do nothing, and make money watching it’s stock become worthless, and still be making a ton of money. This is so bad, people we have got to change this. This practice must be changed, its not morally right. It also means all the soldiers that have died for this country have died to let corporations swindle us. A true free nation. I would say 99 percent of the people are not aware, that this is legal. I called Merrill Lynch and no one I talked to could answer my question. I went to my American Legion Hall today and told all my world war 2 friends that all their friends died so that legally stealing from people is ok, in the great USA. Now I know why the Arab’s are pissed off, the Chinese to, we are stealing from the whole world. And that explains the story I read about Kuwait, and how they made billions of dollars on a loan to Citi bank. They didn’t buy regular shares of stock, no they had preferred shares of stock. Other wise they would have lost their asses when Citi went from 33 dollars a share to 4 dollars a share. Did anyone see that story the other day, they made billions of dollars off of the USA. The American stock market must be shut down, pure and simple. It’s a huge pump and dump scheme. People I can’t emphasize enough what a rip off the US stock market is.. And if you die for this country, you are an uniformed idiot. All my good relatives died for scammers, and thefts. The US government is really the top player in this scam, no wonder people are not voting. A lot of people know this is complete b.s. in the old USA. Any news paper that does not follow up on this story, is no real news paper, and more than likely can not be trusted. This is why the Soviet Union fell apart. The US government showed the Russians this and said why don’t you guys do this, it is so easy to rip off the people. How many politicians kids go to war ? The USA is a house of cards, built on lies and deceit. I thought Jews were suppose to be smart ??? A corporation can manipulate its stock so easily, especially down. Hey would someone out there please put a bullet in my head, you people are scum.