"Financial Freedom Requires Financial Fairness. Demand True Transparency Today"

The integrity of global financial markets — and the trust of every retail investor, pension holder, and citizen — is under siege.

Through unchecked practices like Fails to Deliver (FTDs), phantom shares, dark pool abuse, naked short selling, and hidden leverage instruments like Total Return Swaps (TRS) and Credit Default Swaps (CDS), powerful market participants have systematically eroded transparency and accountability across U.S. and global markets.

These manipulations suppress legitimate price discovery, distort public companies' valuations, damage retirement savings, and undermine trust in a system that should serve all, not just a privileged few. Left unchecked, these abuses create an uneven playing field that favors insiders and disadvantages ordinary investors, workers, and small businesses.

Notably, the unchecked influence of short-sellers — including public figures who profited by intentionally depressing valuations — has compounded the harm. Public trust was further shaken by coordinated negative campaigns, leaving many questioning whether markets truly reward merit or merely power and deception.

We, the undersigned, call for immediate and enforceable action to:

🔹 Ban and strictly enforce prohibitions against naked short selling and phantom share creation.

🔹 Mandate real-time, public disclosure of large swaps, synthetic positions, and derivative exposures.

🔹 Reform and audit dark pool activities to prevent internalization abuse and hidden price suppression.

🔹 Strengthen enforcement of Reg SHO and other anti-manipulation regulations without loopholes or preferential exemptions.

🔹 Empower and fund the SEC, DOJ, and independent oversight bodies to investigate historic and ongoing financial abuses, including but not limited to conduct by short sellers and market makers.

🔹 Hold accountable individuals and firms who profit from illegal or unethical manipulation of public markets, including retrospective civil action where harm is demonstrable.

The time for half-measures is over.

Transparency, fairness, and accountability must be restored to our financial markets — or public faith will be lost for generations.

Together, we demand change.

#FinancialJustice #StopMarketManipulation #RestoreTransparency #EndPhantomShares #ProtectRetail

 

✊ Sign this petition today to demand true transparency, fairness, and accountability in our financial markets. We deserve better.