Nobody complains when the investor who goes short loses his investment.
Except, even if he’s not trying to engineer something, he’s too intelligent to likely lose his investment.
The way the market works is the trader offers value and if someone else needs it then he gets rich. We need to understand that business is one thing and politics are another. Ben and Jerry are idiots politically but they made great ice cream. They also figured out that their equal pay politics BS was cr@p so they ditched their politics when they entered the market.
NEWSMAX/FINANCE in general and F.J. McGuire in particular serve the market by lying about others because there are folks on this thread that love reading nonsense. The article says Soros' says "U.S. stocks will collapse", but the The latest 13-F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission shows that while the fund has $2.6B in puts, it also has $10.1 in stocks and $0.6B in calls. IOW for every dollar in downside hedging he's got $4.10 in upside bet.
Sounds good, I think I'll increase my upside investments to that level...