[pbronez]

Maybe? I think it’s really useful to give people an economic incentive to do socially useful things, like pointing out when a company is in an unsustainable position before it literally starts locking out workers.

Journalists are better spent digging into political situations that aren’t directly tradable.

Even if you think journalists should do the research and make results public instead of funds doing the research and keeping it private (until they reveal their conclusions through trading), I think you want shorting available as a RESPONSE to the reporting. Why would the companies change their behavior in response to negative press if they aren’t subjected to economic pain for ignoring it?