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Do the Business of Short Selling Get Better in This Rate Environment?
The golden age of short selling, alpha was basically on the eighties and the late nineties. When rates were six and five and six and seven %, you were earning five or six % on the cash. A lot of shorts have very low yields or don't pay dividends. And with the advent of much more transparent marks, algrythmic trading, you don't often go negative and hard to borrow stocks.