The article goes on and on about how risky shorting is and how many firms have failed. No one thinks of shorting as a good business strategy. That’s why when

The article goes on and on about how risky shorting is and how many firms have failed. No one thinks of shorting as a good business strategy. That’s why when Elon Musk goes on about how shorts are these shadowy super powerful figures you know he’s completely bullshitting because shorts are among the few (only?) actors interested in downward price discovery, while the rest of the world, including governments all over, would much prefer constant price growth with the correction to be suffered by a future generation/government.