Econ 101: Numbers on a computer are not wealth. Anybody can be shorted. It is all perceptions.
Numbers on stock are real wealth, sir! If you had 400K in your portfolio when Biden was president, you now have about $343,000. One stock, PLTR, alone has vanquished people here; they are screaming at their computers. 120+ to 80 in record 19 days. Tesla 400+ to 270 and still bleeding. Elon has lost $130 billion since Trump's inauguration. That is real money, not numbers on computers.