RE: From Ed Steer This Morning ...Great post chux02. A possible solution to the shorting problem is for the mining company to pay a cash dividend (which shorts would be forced to pay). The problem of course is that you have to have the cash flow to do it and growth would be slowed due to the diversion of cash to dividends from exploration and construction. My suggestion would be to start with a penny a share semiannually (oops - are you guys getting rid of pennies - joking). Not a whole lot less than CitiCorp's penny a share quarterly on the NYSE.
...Hopefully this would raise the stock price. Then if cash was needed more shares could be issued. The point is that this would make shorting more expensive and potentially expose the shorters (tracing the checks etc.) as they have to pay the dividend. Thoughts?