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by SilasX 1964 days ago
This feels like "damning with faint praise": "Yeah, yeah, sometimes they break the rules but they say there's no significant court case they lost."

>They are very open about the fact that they or their clients may already have short positions in the stocks concerned and as I said, most of what they say is publicly available information. Clearly, they are not doing anything illegal, or even underhand. They have been sanctioned a few times by regulatory authorities and lost legal battles overseas but, as founder and Executive Editor Andrew Left has frequently pointed out, they have never lost a significant court case in America.