I invest a little (very little) from each check in stocks on Robinhood/stash and a lady at my job made a ton with gamestock. Why is there so much outrage if a bunch of ppl buy a stock? I have like five thousand dogecoins and I see that has doubled in price.
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this. with the addition that you can borrow more stocks than the actual amount of stocks possible because "finance magic"
That's "naked" short-selling. It is illegal, and a shit ton of it was going on-- especially with regards to $gme. The figure I heard was 127% of the available shares were shorted, but I've heard higher as well. Anything over 100% is supposed to not be legal.
tl;dr: Someone got caught with their dick in the cookie jar.