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Feb 2021
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Is This the End of the Reddit Retail Inv...

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WallStreetBets is having a rough day. Its stocks are crashing. Champions from as recently as last week are selling out. More brokerage apps are turning off buying. 

In this episode, NLW explores what it means for this set of assets and the larger shift in power from institutional to retail investors. 

He argues, ultimately, that over the last year retail traders of the type led by WSB have established themselves as too powerful a force for the market to simply turn away from now.

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