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Re:Counterfeiting Stock – Explaining illegal naked shorting ... by StreamBright on Monday February 01, 2021 @05:30AM (#25987412)
>> I don't understand why I'm supposed to be outraged by either

You shouldn't. When the economy collapses because of the aforementioned practices and you family loses their jobs, housing etc, you should not be upset either.

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Re:Counterfeiting Stock – Explaining illegal naked shorting ... by eru on Monday February 01, 2021 @06:43AM (#25987798)
Why would the economy collapse?

If anything, it's very good to have short sellers, because they are the only market participants who have an incentive to expose bubbles. And expose them early.

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Re:Counterfeiting Stock – Explaining illegal naked shorting ... by StreamBright on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @03:47AM (#26011819)
Who knows?

https://www.history.com/news/2008-financial-crisis-causes

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Re:Counterfeiting Stock – Explaining illegal naked shorting ... by eru on Thursday February 04, 2021 @06:26AM (#26024478)
The Fed let nominal GDP (and nominal GDP expectations) tank. The rest followed from there.
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