[ifinnegan]

They lie about everything all the time.

[RedStateRocker]

Short sellers suck. May every last one of them end up holding a ‘will work for food’ sign, bastards.

[AFB-XYZ]

Sort of on-topic: Link to an audio update by Mike Adams. Pretty sobering, but not completely without hope:

https://www.healthrangerreport.com/

Select the 02/01/21 update.

[PGalt]

Many should aspire to last longer than the kool aid they are drinking. (apologies to REAL KOOL - AID)

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=kool+aide&t=osx&iax=images&ia=images

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[monkeyshine]

They “borrow” stocks from other people, sell them at a relatively higher price, then buy them back after they’ve tanked, give the stock back to the original owner with a fee, and keep the rest of the profit.

Yes, that's the idea. Sometimes they lose. But what is usually missing from the conversation and media stories is that they don't really "borrow a share" and sell it. That is just how it is ledgered on the trading desk books. But in fact, if your shares are borrowed by a short, the share never leave your book. What really happens (to put it in general terms) is that your shares are replaced with an IOU for shares; but your statement will still reflect that you own them. You can sell or trade or hedge the IOUs just like regular shares. The impact of this is that the actual supply of "shares" is increased by the number of IOUs.

So in a stock like GME the number of real shares is 100%, and if 100% of those were borrowed the number of shares plus IOUs available to trade is actually 200% of the numbers authorized and sold by the company. It only takes economics 101 to understand that shorting increases the supply of "shares", and that has a depressive effect on the price unless demand increases proportionally to the increase in supply. That is why shorts target particular stocks that seem to be on the rocks, or don't have massive street support, or are going through a difficult business cycle like GE has recently.

[right way right]

The media is enemy #1.
At the very least, they are the tip of the enemy’s spear.
The number one weapon.
They should be dealt with first.
Then should come the corrupt elite rulers and their corrupt election system.

[Don Corleone]

As I recall Soros was big in the hedge fund business.

[7thson]

Correct me if I am wrong, but didn’t Chelsea Clinton work for a hedge fund company?

[Organic Panic]

There is no “news” media. There is a massive propaganda arm of the commie democrat party that would make Goebbel’s blush.