Apparently the GameStop stock bubble wasn’t a short squeeze, it was a public mass psychosis
The SEC has access to complete market data and released a report afterwards, when everyone had already moved on, revealing that there were very few shorts during the bubble phase and they had mostly all gotten liquidated early on.
The price bubbles because no one was shorting it
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