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Yeah, selling chickens in the morning promising afternoon delivery and then buying up all the surplus chickens after lunch at the reduced price.

• yebyen 12y ago
  Oh, it sounds much more realistic when you put it that way. I actually wasn't sure what a real-life application of "short selling" would look like.
  • baking 12y ago
    It was more or less a thought experiment on whether it would be possible to sell negative chickens.
    • yebyen 12y ago
      Pretty disappointed only one answer involved a time machine.