The GameStop Rebellion

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Reddit users wreak havoc on Wall Street by causing GameStop stocks to soar, trading firms face major backlash for restricting trades on the company, and Redditors set their sights on silver. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio ...  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

Why is stock in struggling video game retailer GameStop surging? And what does it have to do with Reddit? We explain.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. 

A bunch of Redditors in the US shook Wall Street by banding together to buy up shares of ailing video game seller GameStop, taking short-sellers by surprise. Nithin Kamath, Co-Founder of Zerodha, and Pravin Palande of ET Prime decode the saga and tell us if a similar frenzy can t ...  Show more