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Re:BIS warns of $80T in hidden off-balance sheet debt held b... by tyleo on Monday December 05, 2022 @12:46PM (#33868932)
This is plainly wrong. Their enthusiasm did not create short interest in GameStop, they simply took advantage of it.
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Re:BIS warns of $80T in hidden off-balance sheet debt held b... by brookst on Monday December 05, 2022 @02:26PM (#33870551)
Sure, but it was self-fulfilling. It wasn't a brilliant analysis, it was a demonstration that a large group of loosely coordinated individual investors can move markets by collective action.
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