So much for the "short squeeze" in BBBY, huh?
Down 60% in 3 days.
I hope nobody around here got suckered in by the Reddit touts on that one!
Hard lesson for anyone who did: Short squeezes NEVER go "to the Moon!"
NEVER.
They shoot up, and then they crash back down to reality.
It is a scam, because it was designed to be a scam. It has been a scam since the very first day of the creation of a stock market (1601). It has been the same stock market, controlled by the same people, for centuries.
The housing market, the car market, and all other markets are also the same scam, created and run by the same people, for all of the time that such markets have existed. In fact, housing market manipulation was (at least according to historical accounts) the reason (or a major contributor) for the fall of the Western Roman Empire (or really it's transition to a religious entity from a governmental one). That housing market scam was run by the same people who run all the markets today (and always have).
Seriously, read my report. I realize it's a lot (and what I have up there is only 1/3rd or so of what it will be), but it's easy to break up into chunks because of how I have it laid out with the sidebar navigation and subsections, and I've been told it's a fairly easy read (as intended).
It really will explain so much. I don't get into the earlier stuff (pre 1850 or so), just to keep it tidy, but I can help guide you to earlier resources if, after reading it, you would like me to justify my statements of earlier connections.