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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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