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@Seaside, while it can be true that to sell a large position of stock in the market can depress the price that would not be the case with Amazon at this time if the company is still seen as having significant growth and upside, as it seems it is.
Say Bezos had a successor lined up who the market loved, and said he wanted to sell out as the new guy came in the way they would do it would be via CROSS. They would line up a large number of Institutions and P/E and other buyers who wanted the stock and just cross outside the market so as to not flood the market and depress the price. Very doable.
But yes to your OP i suspect there are some crazy wealthy individuals off the radar like Putin who are raping entire nation treasuries without it ever being reported. Heck if Yasser Arafat was worth Billions at his death you can bank on that being true.
Say Bezos had a successor lined up who the market loved, and said he wanted to sell out as the new guy came in the way they would do it would be via CROSS. They would line up a large number of Institutions and P/E and other buyers who wanted the stock and just cross outside the market so as to not flood the market and depress the price. Very doable.
But yes to your OP i suspect there are some crazy wealthy individuals off the radar like Putin who are raping entire nation treasuries without it ever being reported. Heck if Yasser Arafat was worth Billions at his death you can bank on that being true.