Hedge funds are betting billions that these 17 stocks are going to implode

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One way hedge funds make money is by betting against stocks that they see running into trouble.

To get a sense of some likely targets of those funds, Goldman Sachs puts together a quarterly Very Important Short Position list of S&P 500 stocks that are being heavily bet against, based on the dollar value of overall outstanding short interest on those stocks.

Here are the 17 stocks Goldman identified with at least $2 billion in short interest:

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