this just happens from time to time, it's part of mass psychology for whatever reason. people just have a moral intuition that short selling is bad. Read about

this just happens from time to time, it's part of mass psychology for whatever reason. people just have a moral intuition that short selling is bad. Read about Clarence Saunders and the Great Piggly-Wiggly Corner of 1923. Similar story, populist Main Street guy going up against the short sellers. Except in the 1920s.