Think of short as a negative share position. To close it out, buy the shares in the market at the (hopefully lower) price. You've (1) sold at a higher price and (2) bot at a lower price - profit is the difference.
Mechanically, the negative share position is achieved by borrowing shares to sell. This carries an obligation to give 'back' the borrowed shares, which is satisfied when you buy in the market.
What vote in any democracy has not been surrounded by misrepresentations by advocates of different sides?
There was no censorship in the Brexit campaign. All sides were free to make their case for months during the campaign. There were plenty of false and misleading claims on both sides, as well as attempted debunking of these claims on the opposing sides. The Brexit debates were far more thorough, fair, and civil than anything you ever see in the US or most other democratic countries.
The notion that the electorate shouldn't have been trusted to sort through all of this, and requires a set of true facts cultivated by some elite group, undermines the entire premise of democracy.
For us, the most frequent issue on our land line are out-of-country calls (so out of jurisdiction) trying to sell duct cleaning services. We've gone as far as booking a couple of appointments to identify the local businesses that use these providers, but nothing comes of the reports. Where the origin is foreign, there are still avenues for domestic enforcement but authorities appear uninterested - to me this is an easy way to increase the effective cost of foreign call centers that don't obey local laws.
Re. the number of machines, it's something I've encountered as an obstacle from a fair proportion of people I've spoken about password managers to. I think its more a perceived issue than a real one.
Just spitballing which systems I would realistically want access to passwords on, at a minimum, includes: personal desktop, personal laptop, tablet(s), cellphone(s), family (parent, sibling, in-laws, etc) computers, office desktop, office laptop.
In my case (many cases?), the latter two prevent software installation, so I would need to manually type from a manager synced on my cell. Which really is no different to what is required for 2FA - just a longer character string. Overall, a some setup and synch related inconveniences but not to a damaging degree, which is why I think this is more a matter of perception - once you think through where you're typing passwords it appears less of an obstacle.
Chrome syncing browser plugins with a password manager makes personal desktop/laptop, and office desktop/laptop pretty trivial (barring, yes, overzealous IT).
Cellphone and tablet I install the relevant app once and am done.
Either way, web access to the credentials isn't uncommon, though you'll need a device for 2-factor confirmation it's you.
For family devices...I wouldn't want to log into them. I don't trust their security sense and don't want to risk compromising my stuff because of their mistake. Why would I anyway; I have my cellphone on me, at minimum; I can access the account there.
> the [office computers] prevent software installation, so I would need to manually type from a manager synced on my cell.
I don't know about other Password Managers, but LastPass lets you access your vault using any web browser. So long as your network doesn't block the LP site, you can access your password manager from anywhere.
On a similar note, Keepass can be used without admin rights with the portable version, so you can keep the portable executable along with the encrypted db file in some secure and accessible email account/web service that your network doesn't block.
I disagree, there are competitors for almost all the non-internally created datasets which implies the streams are available outside the Terminal.
IMO the network effect is the biggest thing to break and that would need to begin with the buy-side. If Pension Manager XYZ with $N trillion AUM uses Bloomberg then you can be damn sure so does anyone wanting to do business with them.
There's a 'joke' in my office, we have someone who circulates key headlines in a morning email because we all have electronic access to a slew of newspapers which means none of us read any of them.
Related, I renewed a print subscription to The Economist after spending the last ~5 years as a digital-only subscriber. I read so much more of the content when it's a physical item than by picking the articles with 'interesting' headlines.
