Can't Stop GameStop

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This episode contains strong language.GameStop can feel like a retailer from a bygone era. But last week, it was dragged back into the zeitgeist when it became the center of an online war between members of an irreverent Reddit subforum and hedge funds — one that left Wall Street ... Show More

The subreddit r/WallStreetBets has been at the center of a national story this week involving GameStop and a couple of angry hedge funds. To help us understand what’s happening, we call up Planet Money co-host Robert Smith. Then, we speak to Redditor u/Hungry_Freaks-Daddy who hop ... Show More

The Verge's Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Elizabeth Lopatto explain how the users of the subreddit r/WallStreetBets sent GameStop, AMC and other stocks rocketing up through the stock market. A year into coronavirus, we’re still counting the dead Slow certification process keeps s ... Show More

C'est un peu l'histoire de David contre Goliath. Sur le forum Reddit, les fans de jeux vidéo se sont concertés pour sauver Game Stop, la célèbre chaine de magasins de jeux vidéo, propriétaire de Micromania en France. Car désormais, les jeux sont dématérialisés, et Game Stop est d ... Show More

Shares in GameStop, the video game store, experienced a dramatic rise in early in 2021. The stock had captured the imagination of many individual investors who heard about it on social media platforms such as TikTok and Reddit. Some investors made a lot of money, while some hedge ... Show More

Reddit, Robinhood, the stock market and Hedge Funds... What's going on with GameStop? Latercase - https://latercase.com 

A video game store has been in the news lately, although not because of video games and not really because of the store either. This week, we're talking about GameStop, and Tom tries to explain the stock market with very limited success. We also solve a problem from a listener lo ... Show More

Vox’s Emily Stewart explains how GameStop’s stock jumped by 1,700 percent this month. Bloomberg’s Matt Levine ponders the purpose of the stock market.Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices