This is a difficult question to answer because hedge fund investors in very general terms are rich people who can afford to game the stock market by driving stock prices down for fragile companies by shorting the stocks … or boosting the stocks that are likely to rapidly rise in share value as a result of their driving other companies stocks down in value. Hedge fund trading, in summary, has very little socially positive value and high potential to damage the employees adversely impacted by their manipulation of the markets.
So what products might I have been buying from Ken Griffin (or any of the other billionaire) enterprises that I could now boycott?
This is a difficult question to answer because hedge fund investors in very general terms are rich people who can afford to game the stock market by driving stock prices down for fragile companies by shorting the stocks … or boosting the stocks that are likely to rapidly rise in share value as a result of their driving other companies stocks down in value. Hedge fund trading, in summary, has very little socially positive value and high potential to damage the employees adversely impacted by their manipulation of the markets.