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I agree with that statement partly. The end of the article and the writer is going off into la-la land, but he does bring up a valid point that I agree with. Naked short selling is a major market manipulation tool and is being heavily abused by the major brokers.

Whats even worse is stock exchanges like Germany's openly allowing this. Call me paranoid, but I've been extremely weary of the potential manipulation of the US markets by foreign investors and entities who cordinate massive shorting schemes of american equities. The individual and small investors are being utterly screwed over.

I get the sense that guys like Soros and people managing major pools of money can profit off the massive cordinated naked shorting of american companies while creating tons of misery for the US economy. Companies that in no way deserve such shorting pressure considering their revenue numbers.
The manipulation is happening.

While I understand and appreciate the stock market - I have to chuckle when I listen to people talk about making a lot of money at it - or even sillier, talk about how much money should have been make by them for one reason or another.

Look, you want good investment - invest in some safe low growth high dividend equities and stick them in a drawer and forget about them. You want to try to score big? Sure, play the market, go to the dog track, buy a lottery ticket. Then shut the hell up, I don't want to hear your mystical, magic reasons about how you lost a boatload, or you blab how smart you were on the one in a hundred shot where you made a few bucks.

You want to MAKE MONEY? Get a job, you lazy bastard.