The Stock Market Game is a curriculum-based teaching tool that allows students to invest a hypothetical $100,000 online stock portfolio to learn about long-term saving and investing.
Suffice it to say there was a lot of news this week, but one of the bigger stories was about short-selling and the government's actions with respect to it.
Aggressive short-selling has been blamed for eroding the share prices of companies like Lehman Brothers, which last week was forced to file for bankruptcy, and Merrill Lynch(MER Quote), which felt it had no choice but to sell itself to Bank of America(BAC Quote).
Now, short-selling is not the only factor responsible for the crashing of the financial sector. Wall Street firms created a lot of their own problems by underwriting and loading up on securities linked to toxic mortgage loans. ...
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