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The gamestop drama just got fuckin better and by better I mean the wallstreet shit may be more evil than anyone thought.
TLDR: redditor asked himself: Squeezes have happened before, why are they freaking out so bad over this one?
Numbers Indicate: this might unveil a bunch of counterfeit stocks that the hedge funds and brokers were in on.
(Will put the text version in a reblog)
Counterfeiting Stock Paper
Alright, since @jughead-is-canonically-aroace asked me to explain this post too, I’ll try my best- First, if you haven’t yet, I recommend you read https://bunnyapocalips.tumblr.com/post/641584251238809600/ill-try-to-keep-this-as-simple-as-possible-so-if “my” previous post, this should get you mostly up to speed even if you know next-to-nothing about stonks. It’s not 100% accurate for the sake of simplification, and the post I replied to has some inaccuracies, but it’ll get the job done. Maximum ultra TL;DR at the top because I was asked to include those: When everything is going right, all shares that are available on the market were directly issued by the company (in this case Gamestop) at some point, most commonly when they first became publicly traded. If the data in the reddit point is even close to accurate, there are FAR more shares on the market than should legally exist. Someone’s been printing fake shares. This in all honesty is a lot more complicated than the “regular” stock market, so I’ll try to break it down as best as possible, but, you know. So, coming back to naked shorts from the explanation I linked earlier: How do those even happen? Someone borrows a share, sells it to someone else, then buys another one back later to give it to the person originally borrowed from. That’s a regular short. In a naked short, you sell the share first, then only afterwards even try to find one to borrow (-that you already sold at this point), and you’re never buying one to “give back”, as there never was a person you borrowed from. How does this happen? Nepotism!
(Graphic from: http://counterfeitingstock.com/CS2.0/CounterfeitingStock.html ) (Image ID: At the bottom is a box labeled DTCC, it has arrows going out to boxes labeled Prime Broker A & Prime Broker B, those two boxes have more arrows going out to Customer A-1, A-2, B1-, and B-2) In the USA, the entity presiding over all stock sales & keeping track of who owns what is the DTCC. The DTCC is a privately owned company. The Primer Brokers are those 10-or-so companies that are officially licensed to sell actual stocks, the biggest of the big fish - if you ever buy a stock from a small company like RobinHood, chances are that the actual purchasing and transfer happens on the Prime Broker level, RobinHood just holds the information & gets a commission for enabling the sale. Examples for Prime Brokers are Goldman Sachs; Merrill Lynch; Citigroup; Morgan Stanley; Bear Stearns - companies you’ve likely heard parodied or dunked on in media, they just make good “Evil Corporations behind everything” (because they are.) Now, I mentioned that the DTCC is privately owned. Owned by whom? : ) Owned by the Prime Brokers. Can you already see where this is going? The people **actually** owning, buying & selling shares are the Prime Brokers. The company that keeps track of transactions… is also owned by the Prime Brokers. The DTCC fights tooth and nail against any attempt to obtain information on its records or how it is run, subpoena or not. How it works: Customer A-1 wants to buy a share, Customer A-2 wants to sell a share. The Prime Broker sells a share to Customer A-1, and buys it from A-2. The net amount of shares in the market stays the same. At the end of the day, the Primer Broker sends a list of all transactions to the DTCC - in theory, the number of shares should always be the same, since if someone buys, someone has to sell, right? Now shorts enter the market. Prime Broker A wants to short a company. It sells a “””borrowed””” share to Customer A-2. It then tries its absolute “”””hardest”””” to look for a suitable share to borrow after the fact. But damn, these record halls are really dusty, oh well, can’t find one at the moment. - But Customer A-2 still paid for a share, after all. So to protect Customer A-2, the transaction is still considered valid, even after Prime Broker A Failed-To-Deliver the borrowed share. The record of this transaction is only sent to the DTCC at the end of the day. Ah damn, well we already closed the office lads, and A-2 did pay for it, so guess we can’t really do anything, sorry, our hands are tied, we directly lobbied for the legislation that tied our hands in this situation, truly sorry. The net amount of shares in the market increases by +1. There is now a counterfeit stock on the market. But A-2 did pay for it, and we wouldn’t EVER strip a paying customer of their deserved products, Wallstreet never fucks you over. There’s been various amounts of legislation to try to stop this, mostly in 2005 and 2008 after VW respectively, but all they really did was cause the big guys to use other loopholes. The practice of naked shorting & counterfeiting shares (which are usually one and the same) is still very much alive. Which leads us back to gamestop, and the reddit post above. The SEC, ineffective as it might be, at least.. well no it doesn’t really try. But it does keep some data around. Namely, it keeps a list of companies that had a lot of failed-to-deliver shares - so what I described earlier. Note that all the shares are still considered valid, since they were paid for with real money, but they’re fake - they were never issued by the company. Leading us to this graph:
A “regular” company that is being illegally shorted might have a few thousand failed-to-deliver shares a month. To quote the reddit thread: “For example, two random companies: Lowes ($LOW, ~$125B market cap) had 13,960 shares fail to be delivered at its highest point that month, Boston Beer Company ($SAM, $11.5B market cap) had 295 shares fail to be delivered.How many shares of GME failed to deliver? 1,787,191.”
1,787,191 counterfeited shares. GameStop only issued 72 Million shares ever. Almost 2 million shares were counterfeited in December alone. Remember that all this really blew up in January. The thread then goes on to spitball some math and guesstimates, but even with the hard numbers we have from the SEC - an absolutely exceptional number of shares, higher than effectively any other company, are counterfeited, and used explicitly to short the company. This means that the Big Funds have not only been trying to drive the company to ruin for years, they’ve counterfeited an incredible amount of shares that should not exist to do so. This is a level of crime on exactly the same level as printing counterfeit cash. The only one that would know the actual numbers is the DTCC, owned by the very same companies creating the “fake” shares & using them to short GameStop in the first place, so barring some truly exceptional circumstances it is unlikely that we will ever know the full extent. But these are exceptional circumstances. The Mainstream Media, very clearly in the pocket of Wallstreet (Shoutout (derogative) to CNBC here, honorary mentions to Bloomberg), is trying its absolut hardest to get people to sell, to downplay the extent of what is happening here. And now we, possibly, know why. Because THIS is so unbelievably illegal that all the also incredibly illegal things that have already happened are basically peanuts in comparison. (Anyone reminded of, you know, the last few years?) So there you have it! The GameStop hole is even more illegal and worrying than we could have ever assumed, because it’s looking like there are far more than 100% of legitimately issued shares in circulation, and still there are more shorts (120%) than those shares can account for. In theory, this just went from “Hedgefunds bleed and Bankers have to sell their third house” to “Half of Wallstreet goes to jail and the fundamental structure of the US stock market gets restructured with the DTCC broken up or converted into a federal institute” (This is just my, european, hope for what should happen.) This topic is honestly VERY complicated and somewhat intentionally inaccessible, but if you want to know more, I do recommend reading http://counterfeitingstock.com/CS2.0/CounterfeitingStock.html and just trying to wrap your head around it. Reblogging it again in an attempt to get it to show up in the notes. Sorry.
Oh thank god someone smarter than me explained it
MOTHER FUCKER
we're having a Snow Day, which is fine.
except it's NOT bc the huge shift in atmospheric pressure has rendered my autistic brain completely useless for the foreseeable future. all services have been shut down. the roads are closed and so are my neural pathways
when you said atmospheric pressure shut down your brain it took me a second to realize you meant the atmosphere as in how tense school is compared to how calm home is, and not that autistic people have some kind of internal barometer that is attached to their brain.
nope, I'm literally talking about barometric pressure!
for those who aren't aware, autistic/adhd brains are sensitive to barometric pressure shifts. changes in atmospheric pressure (like those caused by rain) effect our blood oxygen levels in a way that messes with our brains. sudden changes in weather can exacerbate our symptoms, making us irritable, lethargic, anxious, twitchy, overwhelmed etc, while our brains work overtime to adjust to the change. it's just one of the ways that environmental factors other people take for granted (weather, noise, overhead music, lights, etc) can affect our lives in ways people don't expect.
so yeah, we basically do carry around internal barometers, attached to very loud alarms!
@xmagnet-o, both of us have ADD/ADHD so we’re super sensitive to this kind of thing.
My doctor mentioned this too.
DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!
Listen in the past the poor have had to improvise cheap food the rich never wanted as a means to survive. And over the many years of innovation made the food taste good until eventually the rich where like: “Oh hay you actually like that garbage? Why on earth would you like it?” Then they try it, love it, start buying it, and then drive the price up so much it becomes a luxury good.
They do this and its devastating, the food typically never becomes affordable again. It don’t matter how cheap the foo dis to produce, it doesn’t matter if there is almost no meat on the bone or its super difficult to eat and messy. Once the poor discover how to make some bit of cheap food taste good, the rich take it away via driving the price of it up.
THEY DID THIS TO RIBS.
Ribs were garage meat. Just look at them, there is hardly any meat on the bone, you have to eat them by hand usually, and they are messy. They where an undesirable cheap source of junk meat. But the poor being the poor made them taste good. (Because they don’t have much to choose from.) The rich discovered the meals the poor made with them and decided they liked ribs too. People discovered they could sell a few ribs to rich people and make way more money then selling lots of ribs to poor people and the price was driven up.
DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!
They did the same to brisket. You used to be able to get brisket for less than a dollar a pound, which meant you could get a twenty pound brisket fairly cheaply. And then you smoked it, sliced it, and had meat for weeks if not a full month. And it was tasty. I grew up eating brisket at least once a month because my family could afford it.
It was a cheap meat because no rich person looks at the dangly part of the neck of a cow and goes ‘ooh, that looks tasty!’.
But then Food Network started showcasing things like barbecued brisket. Rich people started showing up at places that weren’t just Rib Crib to get their barbeque. And the price of brisket went up. A lot.
I regularly see it for over five dollars a pound in stores now. And while yeah, that might not seem like a lot when you’re talking only a pound or two of meat, brisket is normally sold in ten to twenty pound sizes. It’s become completely unaffordable to the people that made it delicious.
Sushi used to be really cheap, too, until it became ‘trendy’. Guess why you’re now paying twelve dollars for your order of California rolls? Because rich people discovered something that poor people had been eating for ages.
Noticed the prices of fajita meat, chicken thighs, or ham hocks has gone up recently? You guessed it. Rich people are taking our food and now we’re scrambling to afford the things that we grew up eating.
Lobster is a perfect example of this phenomenon. For hundreds of years, lobster was regarded as a sort of insect larvae from the depth of the sea. It had zero appeal as a “luxury food” until people living in NY and Boston developed a taste for it. Before the 19th century, it was considered a “poverty food” or used as fertilizer and bait - some household servants specified in employment agreements that they would not eat lobster more than twice a week. It was also commonly served at prisons, which tells you something about prison food.
Only by cleverly marketing lobster as an indulgence for the privileged made it cost so much. It became a vehicle for enormous profit spawning a multi-billion dollar global industry in the process. This mythical affection for lobster flesh - not its practical value in terms of taste, nutrition, or any other reasonable consideration - drives its value.
LMAO. Wait.
Anyone else’s eye twitchin?
Food gentrification is a long standing practice and it’s some of the most evil shit I can think of. It’s why I refuse for example as someone living in the US to buy things with Quinoa in them. It is specifically pricing an indigenous population out of their prime staple food. It’s a horrific invasion of one of the final requirements of staying alive.
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What I mean when I say "toxic monogamy culture"
the normalization of jealousy as an indicator of love
the idea that a sufficiently intense love is enough to overcome any practical incompatibilities
the idea that you should meet your partner’s every need, and if you don’t, you’re either inadequate or they’re too needy
the idea that a sufficiently intense love should cause you to cease to be attracted to anyone else
the idea that commitment is synonymous with exclusivity
the idea that marriage and children are the only valid teleological justifications for being committed to a relationship
the idea that your insecurities are always your partner’s responsibility to tip-toe around and never your responsibility to work on
the idea that your value to a partner is directly proportional to the amount of time and energy they spend on you, and it is in zero-sum competition with everything else they value in life
the idea that being of value to a partner should always make up a large chunk of how you value yourself
If I ask nicely will people reblog this or do I have to be clever and funny or something too?
Seeing as how most of my followers came from this post and it’s seems to never stop, I look like this now and my pronouns are She/Her. Jsyk
Dressed up last month’s patreon sketch requests for Halloween.
Team “I can hear the near silent hum of electrical appliances and the bubbles fizzing in the can of soda on the coffee table, but can’t watch tv without subtitles and processes conversation at ¼ speed”
Mmmmhm.
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(from the documentary The Secret History of Writing, 2020)
Straight friend groups be like: *blonde girl* *chad* *the funny one* *kyle* *brunette girl* *frat boy*
Gay friend groups be like: *merbird* *bark bark bark* *fanfic smuggler* *tiny troublemaker* *pony worshiper* *rock simp* *weed dragon* *mom jelly* *your aunt from new jersey* *the void*
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damn right alien piece of shit (i would be so racist to aliens)
the fact that aliens are just demonic apparitions that adapted to modern society to trick people gives this comic so much depth
U know the moment we reblog this, three years from now a whole hoard of reblogs will crop up with ‘this aged poorly’ in the tags right