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Re:WallStreetBets vs WallStreet: It's not about the money an... by bovine3dom on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:47AM (#25943659)
When you short a share, you borrow a share from someone who owns it and sell that share to someone else.

If the person who bought the shorted share lends it to someone else to short, one share has been shorted twice.

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