It was one of the first conversations I had while I was at a conference, but it was far from the last time this topic came up. In fact, there were many more attendees who asked the same exact thing. The short sellers smell blood when they saw that the market was crashing and they made out like bandits, but the effect that they had on the stock market is that they caused the prices of individual stocks to go down so fast and so hard that investors did not have a chance to sell their stock to get out of the market, because the market makers know that the stocks were going to go down and refuse to execute there buy orders.
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