AGNC Investment Corp (AGNC)

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The prescription for gross market manipulation... take an mReit that normally trades <7m shares per day... slam the exchange with huge sell orders to drive the price through the floor... drive all the "little people" out of the stock. Then buy it back at a low cost and higher divvy yeild so YOU GET YOURS by scaring and screwing everyone else. Then Mr. Market wonders why so many citizens left the market and buy bonds or stodgy old blue chips.

It's like the bank run set off by Mr. Potter in "It's A Wonderful Life" except there is no Jimmy Stewart to save the little man, any more. Just big hedgies and high frequency trading to unlevel the playing field.

Sad.

Very sad.