How do stock market manipulators make fortunes?
The first stock market manipulators you mentioned are those institutional short sellers. They are considered legal traders in the free stock market. The second stock market manipulators are insider tradings done by companies directors. The stock market considers this type of tradings as illegal and the directors can be prosecuted in the courts of law. The Stock Market and the regulators can ban short selling. They should prosecute those insiders traders and put them behind bars.