If all is well in America like you keep saying - there is absolutely no reason to ban short selling. You're contradicting yourself.
An absolutely tremendous close in financials today. This is occurring within the Izzy Bottom. US is strong strong strong.
He also assumes that the market is falling due to short sellers. But the current monthly short interest hasn't increased much above normal levels, which indicates longs are still liquidating. Vanguard's VOO ad one holder dump 4 Billion this week I understand. Banning short selling likely hastens the fall rather than halts it. https://www.nyse.com/publicdocs/nyse/data/NYSE_Group_Consolidated_Short_Interest.xls
What I think a lot of folks are missing is that the market was only down 4.34% on a Fri when states are beginning to lock down. This is actually tremendous new and should heralded. As I mentioned, the other day I went to a very aggressive posture in equities outside of trading and will holed them long haul.