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 | I had read that investor Micheal Burry(Big Short movie/shorting the housing market fame) was sort of the impetus for it.  He got long GameStop back last spring and pressured the GameStop board to begin a share buy back program.  I am not sure if there would be enough shares retired to make those funds short selling way over sold, but it sounds like this has been brewing for a while. |  |
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