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GameStop Shorts Don't Deserve All the Schadenfreude
Messing with traders who bet against stocks has become a popular, and lucrative, strategy. This isn’t healthy.
Playing this game may be unhealthy for the market.
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After some complaints about the length of yesterday’s newsletter, I will try to keep this one short, and that’s appropriate because I need to delve into the world of short-selling.