Stocks, Shares, Investments and all those finacials stuff.

[Shaka_Khan]

Unfortunately, you do not understand what " shorting " is. It is not buying something cheap to sell back later at a higher price, like with real estate or normal stock buying.

It is selling something high first, then buying it later at a lower price. In the instance of your article, if there is a global market meltdown coming as your experts predict, then you could sell stocks now and make money as they fall in price. That's shorting. Or better yet, since I am no good orator. http://www.investopedia.com/university/shortselling/

That was what I meant. Who said anything about selling later at a higher price? When I mentioned real estate, I wasn't talking about selling when the price is higher. You're jumping to conclusions.

My dad had someone who convinced him to buy those stocks. From what I heard, the way he said it made it sound as if the stocks would continue to go up. That was what I meant when I said 'speculation.'

As far as your article is concerned, it has happened before and will continue to happen as long as there is a market place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...d_bear_markets

Duh, I know that. I've witnessed markets go up and down numerous times. What does this have to do with me posting that article?

And notice that I typed 'we could be facing', not 'we will be facing.' There's a huge difference. I mentioned that because I saw numerous articles that predicted another financial meltdown for this year.