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Carl Levin: “You don't believe it is relevant to a customer of yours that you are selling a security to that you are betting against…”

On the recordApril 26, 2010
You don't believe it is relevant to a customer of yours that you are selling a security to that you are betting against that same security.
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Carl Levin
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Levin questions the ethics of selling securities while betting against them.

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