• paddirn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Is it possible that the stock getting pumped up was a way for foreign governments to legally transfer money to him? Could a government (or multiple governments) launch a coordinated effort to increase the price of a stock through strategic actions? It wouldn’t necessarily need to be a sustained effort, just enough to get it going and give it some momentum, then TrumpCo pulls out and collects on his legal not-a-bribe money.

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      1 year ago

      They do have a special master watching things though, don’t they? So it’s going to be difficult to achieve that if that’s what’s going on.

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    1 year ago

    There are plenty of reasons to believe it won’t stay up there.

    Reason #1: It has never made money and it never will make money.

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        1 year ago

        Yep. spez and the CFO sold hundreds of thousands of shares and r/wallstreetbets were planning on shorting it pretty much the second the IPO was announced months ago.

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          I don’t really find that to be damning. They’ve been trying to turn a financial windfall for a while. That’s just them finally cashing out.