Thanks @Cameron
I hope short selling is not banned, nor over regulated. Maybe all it takes to prevent overshorting in the future is for a stand to happen. That stand might be the GME squeeze if it causes so much damage that it gets printed with fire in everyone’s memory.
It might lead to regulatory intervention. But how could that work?! As far as I’m aware naked shorts are illegal, yet some geniuses managed to over-short a stock in a process that some call counterfeit stock scheme and regulators didn’t notice. Private investors did.
Maybe Chamath Palihapitiya is right when he calls for daily full transparency on the sizes of short positions. According to his argument if every long mutual fund has to disclose their long positions on a daily basis… Because transparency