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Monday,
April 20, 2009
(Cont'd from
above)...
Jim
(cont'd):
I pulled up with
Dick Grasso, the
former boss of The
New York Stock
Exchange last
Friday… who told me
that without some
real enforcement of
important rules…
like the end of
naked shorting,
which allows short
sellers to basically
issue stock
themselves and then
knock the share
price down with it…
and what else does
Grasso want, the
reinstatement of a
real uptick rule…
that requires shorts
to wait for a buyer
to pay up instead of
allowing them to
blast the stocks
down… the market is
just not a great
place for you…
Grasso, as always,
is dead right.
So, what would make
me feel like things
are better… that the
playing field for
the retail investor,
for you, has been
leveled… and these
are all things that
I know because I
have traded for so
long… we have got to
have the uptick rule
brought back… and it
can’t be the fake
one that I hear
people talking
about… the fake one
that only kicks in
when the market is
down big, it is just
a canard… that is a
way to placate the
public without
protecting you at
all from the
rapacious stealers
of your wealth…
supporters of this
distinctly phony
solution better be
aware that we are
completely and
utterly on to them…
do they think that
we have just fell
off a turnip truck
here… and as Dick
Grasso told me, how
can you continue to
hurt the regular
investors and expect
that volumes, real
volumes, not just
hedge fund tradings
and ETF’s will ever
come back.
The uptick rule
protected us from
endless short
selling because it
forced the shorts to
either wait for a
stocks price to move
higher, before they
could bang it down
with a short sell…
and made it so…
everything had to
cool off, you
couldn’t just crush
stocks… they created
this rule during the
Depression, to
prevent a repeat of
the Great Crash… but
then the SEC under
Chris Cox got rid of
it in 2007... well
let me just tell
you… let me ask you…
look what happened
since then… we need
to bring back the
uptick rule… the SEC
better listen… and
by the way, the
mutual funds that
have all of your
money, they better
listen too… because
they are the only
ones that really
save us… they have
got to speak up..
.it can’t just be me
here on Mad Money…
right now the quant
funds, the guys who
just trade off of
computers… the hedge
funds, the guys who
are much richer than
you… the exchanges,
the guys who need
short term volume to
make their numbers…
and the ETF
industries, yeah the
one that brought you
the bank weapon of
mass destruction the
SKF… probably cost
the taxpayer
billions of dollars
in bailouts, as it
allowed the shorts
to sow fear and
destroy banks… those
interests are all in
charge… we are not
in charge, you are
not in charge… those
bad interests… those
anti-capitalist
interests captured
the bureaucracy… and
there are enough no
nothing professors
who have never
traded are willing
to say that this
stuff does not
matter… it galls me…
I welcome them to
spend 5 minutes with
me so I can explain
the way the world
really works… you
have to trust me…
not them… as someone
who has their
academic credentials
and traded for 20
years, I can tell
you that they do
indeed know nothing.
Second we need to
see the end of naked
short selling… where
investors sell a
stock short without
having borrowed it
first… they can sell
shares that they do
not even have… they
create stock… that
is not how things
work in real life…
it is unfortunately
how things work in
the stock market,
because the
exchanges wanted a
lot of stock to be
traded… and all of
the brokerages want
as much volume as
they can… and the
government does not
care anymore about
you… how do we stop
this… how do we get
the government to
protect you… well,
maybe the companies
can help… they
should call all of
their brokerage
houses, because they
do a lot of
investment banking,
and tell them that
they will never do a
dime of business
with them unless
they call all of the
naked shorting… in
other words, that
they call in all of
the stock that is
naked… and they can
do that… like the
stock that drove
down Wells Fargo,
and GE, and JP
Morgan to levels
that are ridiculous.
Right now the only
company that I know
is actually trying
to do this is Sears,
my friend Eddie
Lambert… he is
helping to enforce
this rule by really
monitoring it… and I
think we got a
double in that stock
while he did it… the
government only has
to bring one high
profile naked
shorting case
against a hedge
fund, and the
brokerage house… and
that jig is up… one
case government.
Alright, third we
need indictments… I
want kangaroo court,
show trials, star
chambers,
waterboarding
galore… you name it…
but you can not have
it until you indict…
now I mention that
parade of ridiculous
total injustice
because the more on
blogs who dog me
even when I sleep,
can now say that
Cramer calls for
waterboarding of
Dick Fall of Lehman,
and the whole board
of directors at AIG…
all I can say is
thank you blogs, at
least someone is
paying attention… I
mean where are the
AIG indictments…
have you seen a perp
walk… I mean the
only perp walk that
you are going to see
is on Law & Order
Criminal Intent,
because I am a team
player… Jeff
Goldblum, okay,
can’t wait… where is
the special justice
department czar that
we have been calling
for for white collar
crimes… so we can
get some runaway
grand juries going
to look into the
collapse of Bear,
and Lehman, and
Washington, Mutual
and Wachovia, and
how about all of
those mortgage
broking frauds… here
is a simple
question… it is kind
of like Watergate…
they are selling the
stock right, what
did they know, and
when did they know
it… overlaid by when
they told you to
buy… I will testify
in everyone of these
cases.
Here is the bottom
line…
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The
Bottom Line!:
We get honest SEC
enforcement… a real
return of the real
uptick rule… where
the shorts have to
wait until the
customer perhaps
pays up a nickel
from the last sell…
we get enforcement
of naked shorting…
and a ban of the
bogus products that
allow hedge fund
short sellers to get
around the margin
rules to destroy
banks, the Fed can
take care of that
too… and we get
indictments…
glorious
indictments… then we
can say that it is
okay to go back into
the water and it is
no longer dirty…
until then… giving
the approaching
nationwide bottom in
real estate, in the
worst hit areas of
the country, I would
rather buy a house
than buy a stock…
Mad House Money...
The uptick rule, end
of naked
short-selling & some
indictments - that
trifecta could level
the playing field,
until then the
housing waters are a
more tepid place to
shop. We need to
bring back the
uptick rule… we need
to see an end to
naked shorting… we
need to see
indictments.. .yes,
and waterboarding…
no, just kidding..
but how about we get
the playing field
level by having a
little enforcement…
and maybe some time
spent in jail for
the real bad guys.
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Jim went on after
this segment to take
questions from
callers, and
responded with his
comments...
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Q:
I am wondering if
the re-imposition of
the uptick rule
which is something
that you have been
advocating for a
while now, may
actually have some
unforeseen adverse
consequences for
long investors. For
example, couldn’t it
have an adverse
affect on long ETF’s
because of all the
hedging and
leveraged investment
techniques involved?
What do you think?
Jim:
Why do we need the
long ETF’s… we did
pretty well without
them for a long
time, the market
went up a great
deal, a lot of
wealth was created…
the ETF’s seem to be
very much zero
summary in it.. they
changed everything
in the commodities…
remember,
commodities do not
create capital… what
creates capital,
what creates wealth,
are stocks going
higher… progress, I
am yes, in favor of
stocks going higher…
it has been my
mantra since I
started writing
about the stock
market in 1982... I
favor stocks going
higher… that is the
bias that I have
traded with… that is
the bias that I have
Mad Money on… and as
far as I am
concerned, those
ETF’s do not help
the cause.
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Q:
I am a college
student, a new
investor. I am
wondering about the
importance of
valuation of good
will on a balance
sheet. What
determines these
numbers? and what do
they tell us?
Jim:
Well, it was like I
was thinking about
the good will of
buying… let’s say
that you bought Dow
Jones, for like $5b
here… it is a
hypothetical, you
are a big media
conglomerate and you
bought a company
like Dow Jones for
$5b and it is worth
a lot less… well,
you have got a lot
of good will on the
balance sheet, so
you take that
hypothetical
situation, and
shouldn’t you
hypothetical write
down the
hypothetical good
will and take a
hypothetical charge
and hypothetically
wipe out your
earnings… yes… but a
lot of companies do
not like to take the
good will charges
because it makes
them look like they
made a mistake when
they buy… so we are
very tough on good
will on Mad Money…
we want to see the
charges taken, we
don’t like earnings…
and remember that
was totally
hypothetically, no
company actually
bought Dow Jones.
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