“Short selling has no obvious value to the American economy,” Tucker Carlson declared following the Robinhood/GameStop fallout. “Short selling hurts companies, obviously; it hurts its investors, its employees, ultimately it hurts our country itself.”
Like most political statements today, this is a mere assertion with no basis in fact.
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