"[A]ny time you try a decent crime, you got fifty ways you're gonna [expletive] up. If you think of twenty-five of them, then you're a genius... and you ain't no genius."
-- Teddy Lewis, the ex-con played by Mickey Rourke in "Body Heat"
"...[W]e believe it represents the best balance between restrictions and operability, and would therefore promote public confidence without unduly inhibiting legitimate short-selling."
A "good old rumor manipulation" is interrupted by system alerts, a phone tip, and fast and furious detective work and cooperation to halt the alleged scheme before the trades settled and ill-gotten profits could disappear.
Wrongdoing seems to know no generational boundaries, it has a very short memory, and it never seems to learn from past mistakes. We are reminded of all this by a couple of articles in the last week.
