• Entrepreneur: “I own a company. There are 100 shares, each representing 1/100 ownership stake. This matters for setting the direction of the company. Would you like to buy 5 shares?”
• You: “Yes, it sounds profitable.”
• Finance Asshole: “I am selling 20 shares of the company if anyone wants to buy them.”
• Anyone: “But you don’t own any shares?”
• Finance Asshole: “It’s called a short sale, idiot. Don’t you know finance? Did you graduate from Retard University?”
• SEC, Board of Governors consisting of 10 former, still invested Finance Assholes: “I see nothing. Robinhood did the right thing to safeguard liquidity.”
• <120 shares of Company now exist without Company having issued new shares to raise capital. Think of this as me being able to secure a loan by using your house as collateral.>
• Finance Asshole: That was very profitable. I will now short 1000 more shares.
• <Companies who aren’t careful lose control of their Board of Governors and get sold at discount for parts - see: Richard Gere in Pretty Woman>
• Aware Investors: “Hey Entrepreneur, Finance Asshole and SEC are doing this by keeping all traded shares registered under ownership of Cede and Company, and fudging their books as to how many shares are actually being traded, can I please register my shares with you directly?”
• Entrepreneur: “Sure!”
• Board Meeting: “Guys, isn’t it funny how 110 shares of stock are registered directly, with 800 still trading in the market, when we only ever issued 100 shares?”
• Board Meeting: “Did you just say, ‘Short and Curlies’?”
• Retarded Communists on Reddit: “Hey everybody, I found the failure of capitalism!”
• (likely:) Archaeologist: Wow! It turns out, Finance Asshole is descended directly from one of the money changers who was ripping off the Israelites of Yehuda using similar scams that Yeshua drove out of the Second Temple with a whip!

Cede and Company: https://greatawakening.win/p/19BGmCQc4q/cede--co--you-already-own-nothin/

u/ILoveIvermectin

Wen Lambo = Now lambo

Click the Reddit link and read the comments. Still trying to understand myself. Yuuuge cheating going on.

Fr the comment section…

“It seems like an alleged whistleblower that worked for the SEC (if i read the files right) knew about naked shorting for years. Filed a complaint and sent emails FOR YEARS and nobody looked into it/ they let it keep happening. Naked shorting, how they are doing it, who is involved; it's all there.”

“Just like with Madoff’s ponzi scheme, whistleblowers were ignored.”

“My question is why is this related to the Epstein files?”

“I read in another document that included more emails from this guy and he mentions epstein as one of the parties involved in the OTC market naked shorting.”

Naked shorting is an illegal (in the U.S.) trading practice where an investor sells shares of a stock they do not own and have not borrowed, creating "phantom shares". Unlike conventional shorting, which requires borrowing shares first, this creates a "fail to deliver" (FTD) if the seller cannot provide the shares within the settlement period.

u/GGRockz was that ELI5 enough?