Popt: But, what if the short shares don't have to be purchased at all, in reality. If there is no par value, they're essentially free shares.
A few thousand a day, petty cash slush fund change, nobody cares, what's the big deal, who's getting hurt, to harmless to worry about stopping, it's all legal...
as the story goes.
If billionaire Patrick Byrne couldn't stop them and was only able to bring light to the subject, nobody will.
Chapter 4 - The Crime: “Naked Short Selling” and Other Insincere IOUs. A crime is routinely occurring in our capital markets. Small loopholes created to provide “fault tolerance” in our nation’s stock settlement system are being exploited by Wall Street brokerages and their hedge fund clients to steal billions of dollars.
YA are masters at the game they play. We're just pawns.