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Does this mean that there is still only 100% of stocks available and the ratio of iou's to total stocks 113/100? I guess that makes sense that a person can bor
by zappo2938 6y ago
Does this mean that there is still only 100% of stocks available and the ratio of iou's to total stocks 113/100?
I guess that makes sense that a person can borrow a stock, sell it, borrow it again from the second buyer, sell it again. The number of stocks floating around stay the same, however, the number of iou's increases. Likewise, a person can buy the one share, return it, then buy it again, and return it again to settle the second of the iou's.
Interesting that nobody is really explaining the mechanics of how this works. Makes me wonder if a lot of retail investors are about to get hurt.
- colechristensen 6y ago>Interesting that nobody is really explain the mechanics of how this works. This is another case of the more popular a thing is, the less reliable the talk about it seems to be. News outlets could very much be explaining well what is going on, but they aren't. Bits and pieces of the "real" story are coming out, and lots and lots and lots of nonsense.