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You’ve been tasked with defining a new area of criminal law called “economic and financial violence,” and creating laws to prevent it. What actions would you try to criminalize? (lemmy.world)
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For example: private equity firms buying trailer parks and raising rents so high that people go bankrupt

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Here's a pretty good explanation

https://marketrealist.com/p/what-is-cellar-boxing-in-stocks/

But in short, they decide to destroy a particular stock. They sell shares that they don't have, and then when the stock reaches zero and is delisted, they do not have to provide the stocks that they sold but never had in the first place

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