The latest assault on Wall Street short sellers has a long tradition, dating back to, well, at least Napoleon. “Treasonous,” he called them for betting against government securities.
They survived that and numerous other attacks over the next several centuries. But the GameStop uprising could mark the end of an era for the public short -- the long-vilified folks who try to root out corporate wrongdoing, take positions betting a stock will fall and then wage public campaigns.
