Do you imply that it was excessive short selling between 2006 and 2009 that lowered the price of Citigroup? It seems much more likely that the 2008 financial cr

Do you imply that it was excessive short selling between 2006 and 2009 that lowered the price of Citigroup? It seems much more likely that the 2008 financial crisis had a lot to do with it and that Citigroup (which famously only escaped bankruptcy due to a government bailout) indeed lost 98.2% of its equity value. So it wasn't the stock price falling that brought the company low, it was the company failing that brought the stock price low.