Some economists blame speculative transactions such as "naked short selling" for plunging the world economy into a financial crisis.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

In naked short-selling, the bets are made on assets that are neither borrowed nor owned by the investor.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

The ban applies to a type of transaction known as "naked short-selling."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

"The detainees were kept naked for weeks, months at a time - kept in very small cells, whose temperatures were kept artificially low, sometimes to the extent that the naked detainees, as one official said,seemed to turn blue,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.23