• UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The problem is not short selling, the problem are rich people manipulating the market in ways that should definitely be illegal.

    How it’s allowed to first short a stock and then release some “secret” (and often partly or complete bullshit) info is beyond me.

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      7 months ago

      See - Headline after headline about bits falling off “Boeing” planes, when they were sold by Boeing twenty years ago and badly maintained for the last ten

      🤨

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          7 months ago

          Dunno but if I didn’t service my car I wouldn’t blame the manufacturer when bits start falling off it

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        7 months ago

        How does this have anything to do with short selling? Besides, parts are falling of and their own engineers are speaking out against Boeing. That’s not to mention the multiple crashes that were 100% preventable, foreseeable and Boeings fault.