Apr. 20, 2022
To whom it may concern, this rules is similar two rules withdrawn twice because of the harm it would cause retail investors. Retail investors like me are already at so many huge disadvantages, making it easier for big players to hide failure to delivers and naked shorts will further weaken the market. Our economy is on a precipice and the more the scale is tipped in the balance of the powerful few, the faster everything is going to topple. We are desperate for reliable forms of income. Wages have stagnated, inflation is crushing us, if the markets continue to be co completely fraudulent as they have been over the last ten to fifteen years, the people barely making it will slip further behind and society will have more and more people with nothing left to lose. Which is extremely dangerous. You must pass laws that actually criminalize and stop the fraudulent actors in our system, they are causing the weakening of our system. You must protect retail investors, we are the consumers that make up the markets that drive our economy. If we don’t have money to spend, the stock market won’t do well no matter how mu printed money the government infused into it. Stop this bullshit. The public is awake and watching very very closely. Sincerely, Concerned citizen