The SEC doesn’t do jack shit about anything. The SEC are toothless pretend watchdogs created by and staffed by former stock marketers who exist for the sole purpose of making the public think there is oversight and accountability.
It is the stock market version of the police’s internal affairs.
Martha Stewart’s case was two decades ago. How many people have served jail time for fraud based on the SEC since then?
Musk got the regular slap on the wrist pretend punishment that the SEC does to appear legitimate. He also continues to openly manipulate stocks with no further accountability.
I don’t assume it is zero, but I assume it is far fewer than it should be since Musk has been openly manipulating the market without any punishment for years.
The listed value is more or less the amount currently being offered by people who want to buy the stock. So if it has a listed value then he can sell it.
Comic books don’t have market makers. Stocks generally do.
They act as intermediaries so individual stock buyers don’t have to find individual stock sellers. Which means the companies that agree to act as market makers are always willing to buy a stock and always willing to sell it. When buyers and sellers don’t balance, they adjust the stock price until they do (always making a slight profit on arbitrage).
Someone has to buy the stock that he sells. It doesn’t magically turn into money cause it has a listed value that day.
Sure, there can be some money laundering and foreign “investments” but the SEC really doesn’t like stock manipulation.
The SEC doesn’t do jack shit about anything. The SEC are toothless pretend watchdogs created by and staffed by former stock marketers who exist for the sole purpose of making the public think there is oversight and accountability.
It is the stock market version of the police’s internal affairs.
Tell that to Martha Stewart and Elon Musk.
SEC isn’t a savior, but they do enforce the law when it’s blatant.
Martha Stewart’s case was two decades ago. How many people have served jail time for fraud based on the SEC since then?
Musk got the regular slap on the wrist pretend punishment that the SEC does to appear legitimate. He also continues to openly manipulate stocks with no further accountability.
are you just assuming zero, or do you actually keep up with this stuff?
just a brief search led me to these which were all published literally yesterday:
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/sec-widens-insider-trading-case-involving-stolen-law-firm-ma-info-2024-09-10/
https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2024-09-10/convicted-nikola-founder-milton-owes-electric-truck-maker-168-million-judge-rules
https://wchstv.com/news/local/im-teddy-f-miller-boasts-influencer-now-jailed-for-fraud
I don’t assume it is zero, but I assume it is far fewer than it should be since Musk has been openly manipulating the market without any punishment for years.
then just say that rather than asking “how many” because apparently no number would be high enough to meet your standard.
I’m sorry I might have hurt the SEC’s feelings. Will you ever forgive me?
Good ol’ Lemmy maturity.
It’ll definitely cause the price to drop and will probably destroy the company’s selling so much at once.
But it happens all the time.
And trump supporters are 100% dumb enough to “buy the dip”.
HODL the bag
Even worse, they don’t have to believe even that.
Some will believe that this is “charity stock” and buy the stock as it spirals to zero as “charity” for their candidate…
They’ve already bought the dipshit.
The listed value is more or less the amount currently being offered by people who want to buy the stock. So if it has a listed value then he can sell it.
If there’s a single copy of a comic book that sells for $1,000 that doesn’t mean you can sell 100 of them for that price.
If there’s a couple dozen shares of a stock selling for $15, that doesn’t mean there’s enough buyers to pay for a million of them at that price.
If trump dumps all his shares, the stock price will crash, and eventually there won’t be ANYONE to buy the stock and the price will be effectively $0.
Comic books don’t have market makers. Stocks generally do.
They act as intermediaries so individual stock buyers don’t have to find individual stock sellers. Which means the companies that agree to act as market makers are always willing to buy a stock and always willing to sell it. When buyers and sellers don’t balance, they adjust the stock price until they do (always making a slight profit on arbitrage).