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Throw the Bum Out

By Jim Cramer

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 When the Milwaukee Brewers get swept in a four-game road trip to Philly, it was time for the manager to go. I am already hearing about the possible firing of NFL coaches after two weeks of losses. But SEC Chairman Chris Cox, a man who is so over his head, stays. A man who by enforcing the ban on reckless short-selling (that was illegal since the 1930s) almost saved the system but then inexplicably did not extend the rules, gets to stay! This one-man wrecking crew, who just cost us $85 billion and is responsible for not enforcing the disclosure rules for outfits like Lehman and AIG , who didn't re-institute the uptick rule because of some nonsense academic work that was done in boom times, is still running the joint. This is almost Leninist in its destruction of capitalism. I can't believe that this man has...

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