Is there any way to trace who was short selling and who pulled 500 billion from the US economy before trading was halted one day?

Technically, yes, if the government tasked the resources based on national security grounds.  But as the article itself notes, the government hasn't been and it isn't allocating those resources.  Else the court orders would be leaking out already.  The effort would be Herculean in any event and, at the end of the day, were the trail to lead conclusively to a foreign power and its executive what, if anything, *would* we do about the event?  (A stern talking-to at best after all that expenditure.)  The root problem is the Wall Street casino and its counterparts, "dark" money, businesses too large to fail, and the interlocks with government leadership that have led us to a point in our history where nobody knows, and few desire to know, and those who do desire to know are neutered, what actually occurs within the international financial webwork we are living in. 0.02

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