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On the recordDecember 8, 2009
Look, I don't think it's the right thing to allow people to negatively short sell, especially when they do it to a company and knock its stock way down deliberately.
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Orrin Hatch
Republican · Utah

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Senator Hatch criticizes the practice of negative short selling and its harmful effects on companies.

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