From: NF Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 12:23 AM To: wblock@loyno.edu Subject: Re: Short Selling Stock and Libertarianism In addition to the libertarian legal problems with short selling in and of itself, would you consider the activity shown in the following video to be criminal where a broker keeps of a fractional reserve of stock? https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/stock-and-bonds/shorting-stock/v/basic-shorting Would you consider the shorting of stock to be incompatible with libertarianism for the same reason you consider fractional reserve banking to be? When someone borrows and then sells a stock the lender of the stock as well as the buyer of the stock … Continue reading Fractional Reserve Banking, Short Selling, Borrowing and Lending