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I don't think it's a non-story the fact that some market participants can short sell non-existent amounts of stocks. Is this common knowledge? Did everyone already know this but me?



The CEO of Overstock has been loudly complaining about naked shorts for a while

https://www.overstock.com/naked-short-selling.html


Yes? I mean software engineers don't typically know, as well as everyone that abstractly dismisses the finance profession because "those guys have no souls and destroy the economy"

But there's allot of interesting nuances there and knowledge is power




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