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Originally Posted by pythos
Selling shares does not crash the economy. Short selling does. Look it up. It is a fairly new thing, and has been wreaking havok on the market.
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Short selling is NOT new
The degree to which investors can leverage their short sales may be new and is likely what causes a single bad short sale to gash the marketplace since the investor's ineptitude/bad luck is now multiplied by a factor of several million times.
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