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		melling on Aug 17, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees Then short the stock. Long-term put options. What could go wrong?

pjc50 on Aug 17, 2016 [–]

You're probably being sarcastic, but we just had the other day the problem with shorting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12294193

melling on Aug 17, 2016 | [–]

Investors short all the time. Your comment seems to be irrelevant to the discussion.

How about this famous short? Soros made a billion dollars.

https://priceonomics.com/the-trade-of-the-century-when-georg...

Did you see/read "The Big Short?"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Short_(film)

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