SS lend heavily to others as you state. They are therefore among...

SS lend heavily to others as you state. They are therefore among those primarily responsible for the shorting & manipulation of stock prices, which makes a mockery of LTR and other corporate MC values and also negatively impacts upon the multitude of orthodox investors beyond the SS client base. As such, just like their SS namesake organisation of WW2 days, they are commonly regarded by most orthodox investors as representing the dark-side. That is their chosen strategy and market approach; however, it's more difficult to understand why any non-holding poster with zero sentiment for LTR would bother waving the SS flag unless also a part of the dark side in some form.

BTW, my own LTR portfolio valuation is up 2,000% over the past 3 years, and I believe this would easily have been 4,000 - 5,000% if there were no State Streets and shorters fiddling the books and odds. Now, where's that 'ignore' feature again?