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"Given that they are saying they cannot afford to provide care to 2,000 elderly and disabled people in Bradford, and they are talking about cutting funding to young people and closing children's centres, maybe what they want to do is sell off some of this art collection that we actually just tuck away and pay the insurance on," she said.
The metaphor usually implies the best thing to do with a crashed company is sell off the salvageable parts and haul the remainder to a junkyard.
There's basically all this phantom stock that isn't real in the system and so when you want to crush a company all you have to do is sell off a lot of it, fast enough, to create panic with novice investors who sell everything and drive the share price to $0.
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Many were sold off during the fiscal crisis.
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