President Trump has issued more than 150 executive orders during the first 130 days of his second term (to May 29), covering everything from new tariffs and AI (Artificial Intelligence) to “Protecting American Communities from Criminal Aliens.”

Now one of the most important of these orders may be at hand: a bold measure to curb “naked” short selling (“naked shorts”), by which market makers such as Citadel sell short vastly more shares in a company than are available for sale.

It’s an illegal practice that, oddly, has flourished.

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