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Re:GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine by taurath on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @10:10PM (#25937663)
They also profit from creating the perception of fraud, filing spurious lawsuits and marketing against companies they are shorting.

Shorting is illegal in Australia, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal and a few other countries with large financial markets. The US has the most "open" policies on shorting in the world. Short selling was an extremely large contributor to the 1929 stock market crash.

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Re:GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine by smabie on Thursday January 28, 2021 @12:07AM (#25938441)
Short selling is not illegal in Germany. I also suspect you are wrong about some of the other countries as well. But regardless, you would be hard pressed to find anyone in the industry who thinks shorting is bad. The overwhelming consensus is that shorting is very good to allow
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