April 9, 2021
Hedge funds and investment groups that benefit from naked shorting of company's stocks are directly responsible for the loss of livelihoods, jobs, and quality of living around the country. As they drive companies to failure by manipulating share prices down to untennable levels, their selfish and unjust gain is bought by wreaking havoc on the average investor, or worker. These actions and selfish, unregulated greed caused the stock market collapse of 2008, and should not be allowed to be repeated. Please adopt rule 801, protecting the market from manipulation, protecting companies threatened by naked shorting, and protecting the average American investor or worker from being stepped on to further the gains of a select few.