Tucker Carlson: “There was something called the uptick rule which prevented…”

“It should be completely illegal. It should be. Well, it has been for most of the last hundred years from I think the Depression until right before the last financial crisis. There was something called the uptick rule which prevented short sellers from selling when the stock was in decline. I think that's correct. I don't know. It's been heavily regulated. It's banned in a lot of countries.” (19:49–19:55)

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