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“Well if you've got information about a company, or you believe that a company is undervalued, you can go out and buy their stock and you can make some profit on it.”

Quote by Robert F. Engle

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Robert F. Engle

Robert F. Engle is a renowned economist known for his contributions to time series analysis and financial economics. In the 1970s, he proposed the Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (ARCH) model, which had a profound impact on the study of financial market volatility. more

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“Allowing short selling is allowing people to sell - instead of having to buy the stock and then sell it, which doesn't do much; allow them to sell it, and then buy it. In which case they can express that information and the idea is that you would get more accurate valuation of companies by letting people express both their positive information and their negative information through either long or short selling.”

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