Podcast appearances and mentions of melvin capital

En este episodio charlo con Nacho Theveritas sobre los interesantes aprendizajes financieros de la película “Golpe a Wall Street”, titulada "El Poder de los Centavos" en Hispanoamérica y “Dumb Money” en Estados Unidos. La película, estrenada en 2023, nos cuenta la historia real de la subida espectacular del precio de las acciones de GameStop (GME), una cadena de tiendas de videojuegos, consolas y productos electrónicos, en el mes de enero de 2021. Está basada en el libro “The Antisocial Network” de Ben Mezrich, publicado a los pocos meses de finalizar los hechos. El protagonista es Keith Gill (interpretado por Paul Dano), un analista financiero y youtuber que invirtió la mayor parte de sus ahorros comprando acciones de GameStop desde julio 2020, publicando dichas inversiones en su canal de Youtube y en el foro “WallStreetbets” de Reddit. Esta apuesta a largo por el valor iba en contra de fondos como Melvin Capital, liderado por Gabe Plotkin, que se habían puesto cortos en la acción. Con Theveritas ya grabé el episodio 81 del podcast sobre la película “Margin Call” y el episodio 72 sobre su trayectoria como inversor particular. Tiene el blog "Definitivamente quizá" en Rankia. La situación de pandemia, el auge de las redes sociales y la facilidad para invertir que proporcionaron brokers como RobinHood también se narra en la película y en nuestra charla. Concluimos explicando qué enseñanzas podemos extraer sobre la gestión de riesgos al invertir, la importancia del timing y las emociones que nos dominan cuando invertimos.Apoya este podcast visitando a los patrocinadores:Interactive Brokers: Un broker con acceso a mercados de todo el mundo.Indexa Capital: Ahorra comisiones dándote de alta con mi código.EVO Cuenta Inteligente En mi canal de Youtube puedes ver esta charla grabada en vídeo.Indice de temasBurbujas y trading intradiaEl broker RobinHood ¿sin comisiones?Deep ValueConvicción invirtiendoCortos versus largosGamestop no es BlockbusterGrifols y GothamLa gorra del Che GuevaraEstrangulamiento de cortosEl poder del timing y Michael BurryGestión de riesgosSesgo de retrospectivaDeja correr los beneficiosSupervisión de RobinhoodContratos de opciones y ballenasComunicación y autenticidadConclusionesMás información con enlaces a los contenidos comentados en el blog de Juan Such:https://www.rankia.com/blog/such/6375505-87-golpe-wall-street-theveritas

Spencer Jakab is the editor of The Wall Street Journal's Heard on the Street column and the author of a fascinating new book called The Revolution That Wasn't: Gamestop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of the Retail Investor. In January of 2021, a large group of small investors from the WallStreetBets subreddit rallied around the stock of video game retailer GameStop, which they believe had been unfairly attacked by short-selling hedge fund Melvin Capital. The subsequent and totally unexpected rally in the stock made millions for several WallStreetBets members and crippled Melvin Capital which was lost up to a billion dollars *per day* during the worst of the short squeeze. On this week's episode, Spencer and I talk about the perfect storm of market, societal, and technological factors that catalyzed the Gamestop phenomenon, why the Robinhood stock trading app (which played a major role in this whole scenario) was designed to function exactly like a sports gambling app. We talk about how WallStreetBets and Robin Hood “investors” are different from boring old etrade or Schwab customers like me, the difference between investing and gambling and lastly, what Melvin Capital's profound losses mean for hedge fund managers in the future. That is, in addition to market, political, and climate-based factors, these hedge fund managers also have to take into consideration the potential madness of crowds.

On this episode, we discuss how sports events (NBA, NHL, Indy 500, PGA, Premiere League) are seeing record viewership on cable TV, with sports leagues and broadcasters making no mention of streaming viewership. We also discuss the new NESN 360 sports streaming service and the impact of Disney potentially losing the IPL (Indian Premiere League), which would impact Disney+ Hotstar's growth. We also talk about funding problems some streaming vendors are having, with the larger impact in the financial markets making it difficult to secure capital. Companies, and services mentioned: Disney+, Netflix, NESN 360, Netflix, Roku, NBA, NHL, Indy 500, PGA, Premiere League, Apple TV+,  Melvin Capital, Tiger Global Management.Questions or feedback? Contact: dan@danrayburn.com

In questo episodio, Lorenzo Brigatti e Paolo di Domenico passano in rassegna le notizie più significative della settimana.Le dichiarazioni "shock" di Ray Dalio sulle azioni, e quali implicazioni devono avere sulle valutazioni di un investitore; le difficoltà del fondo Melvin Capital e infine andando a toccare il tema più caldo di questi ultimi giorni, ossia un rischio di recessione. 

With more streaming services adding AVOD plans, this week we breakdown ARPU amongst streaming services, which now have to be properly compared between SVOD, AVOD and a combo of the two. We also highlight new information given out by Disney and Netflix around their ad-supported plans, Telestream's acquisition of Encoding.com, the new NFL+ service and Paramount's thoughts on the windowing of movies. We also detail some of the problems companies are facing, across all sectors, when it comes to setting proper growth expectations on Wall Street and why some companies are being forced to cut costs and lay people off, or slow hiring. Companies, and services mentioned: Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu, NFL+, Netflix, Roku, HBO Max, Vizio, Paramount, Peacock TV, fuboTV, Spotify, Pluto TV, Telestream, Akamai, Encoding.com, FIFA, Snap, Edgecast, Limelight Networks, Melvin Capital. Questions or feedback? Contact: dan@danrayburn.com

It's GAME OVER For Melvin Capital RISK WARNING: Trading involves HIGH RISK and YOU CAN LOSE a lot of money. Do not risk any money you cannot afford to lose. Trading is not suitable for all investors. We are not registered investment advisors. We do not provide trading or investment advice. We provide research and education through the issuance of statistical information containing no expression of opinion as to the investment merits of a particular security. Information contained herein should not be considered a solicitation to buy or sell any security or engage in a particular investment strategy. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.

Doogles recaps a great New York Times piece on a who are the rich in America and what creates happiness. Skippy discusses that the biggest market cap companies falling is creating most of the downturn...and he investigates some potential arbitrage opportunities. Doogles pulls highlights from a recent post called "The Market is Wrong Bro" about how we psyche ourselves out when riding market waves. Skippy and Doogles debate the differences between buying stocks and buying companies. The episode wraps with a discussion on Melvin Capital shutting down and Skippy drops some year to date stats. Join the https://skippydoogles.supercast.com/ (Skippy and Doogles fan club). You can also get more details about the show at http://skippydoogles.com/ (skippydoogles.com), show notes on https://skippydoogles.substack.com/ (our Substack), and send comments or questions to skippydoogles@gmail.com.

ADÓVILÁG: A Selyemút országai - Végállomás: Törökország. A kis-ázsiai ország történelmi, gazdasági, bel- és külpolitikai portráját rajzolja meg  Gerendy Zoltán, a BDO Magyarország ügyvezetője, adótanácsadó partnere és Feledy Botond, külpolitikai szakértő. ARANYKÖPÉS: Rippl-Rónai József BEFORE THE BELL - Bodnár Martin, az Erste Befektetési Zrt. USA Desk üzletkötője Beárazott a piac 3 kamatemelést. Medvepiac van a tőzsdén. 8 hete folyamatos az esés. A Melvin Capital hedge fundot már fel is számolták emiatt, a sztárbefektető Cathie Wood ETF-e pedig a legrosszabbak közé tartozik. Warren Buffet viszont elkezdett vásárolni. Apple, AmEx és Bank of America a kedvenc, de a bank és olajszektor is elkezdte érdekelni. Ilyen körülmények közt jelent szerdán az Nvidia félvezetőgyártó, aki szerint túl vagyunk a chiphiány nehezén.

Melvin Capital lost billions of dollars in the 2021 GameStop short squeeze. Now, it's fallen-star fund manager is closing down the firm for good.

This week in the China Shop, we look at the comments by uber hawk Bullard on Friday before moving on to stories about Melvin Capital and Citadel's Ken Griffin. In other news, Turkey's latest actions justify Dan's repeated attempts to start beef as they threaten to block Finland and Sweden from joining NATO. In Stock News, Stellantis pisses off their suppliers and Musk tries to get the SEC involved in his TWTR acquisition. Over in the Crypto Corner, Dan fills us in on more of the details leading to the collapse of stablecoin Terra and in The Bet, Kyle finally gets his consequencesIf you like our show, please let us know by rating and subscribing on your platform of choice!Should you like our show and hate social media, then please tell all your friends!If you have no friends and hate social media and you just want to give us money for advertising and help you find more friends, then you can donate here!SponsorshipsOur podcast is sponsored by Sue Pullen at Fairway Independent Mortgage (MLS# 206048). Licensed in 25 states, if you need anything mortgage-related, reach out to her at SPullen@fairwaymc.com or give her a call at (520) 977-7904. Tell her 2 Bulls sent you to get the best rates available!If you are interested in signing up with TRADEPRO Academy, you can use our affiliate link here. We receive compensation for any purchases made when using this link, so it's a great way to support the show and learn at the same time! **Join our Discord for a link and code to save 10%**Check out the custom studies for futures trading over at OrderFlow Labs!To contact us, you can email us directly at 2bulls@financialineptitude.com Or leave a message at (725) 22-BULLS. Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, or Discord to get updated when new content is posted! Links:Fed Bullard Saves the Markets?Former SEC Chief Says Recession is LikelyMelvin Capital Hedge Fund Shuts DownCitadel's Griffen Chides Retail for Taking Down Melvin CapitalTurkey Threatens to Block Finland and Sweden NATO MembershipMusk Wants SEC to Evaluate Twitter User NumbersStellantis Retracts Unpopular Supplier ContractSpirit Board Rejects JetBlue Takeover Offer on Anti-Trust RiskTerra Execs Dissolved Korean HQ Days Before CollapseHow the Anchor Protocol Helped Sink TerraDiscord:https://discord.gg/Q8hft2zMTMLearn More Here***Send us your mailing address so we can send you a smash it yourself mug when you join!***Friends of the Show:TRADEPRO AcademyMindMuscles AcademyOrderFlow LabsBeginner Stuff:Beginner EpisodesKnowledge CenterResourcesAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Sharing information that can protect capital & increase net worth Educating how to use the information to execute a winning strategy Join the ARMR Virtual Hedge Fund community and become an ARMR Insider today. Visit us at https://armrreport.com/ ARMR Education: Bear Market Dot Connecting What do these dots tell us about the direction of markets Hedge fund fails [Melvin Capital, Tiger Global & ARKK] WMT TGT stock price implosion [Let's throw in NFLX] US Gov't bonds TLT IEF ARMR Portfolio Changes: Risk Monitor RED on 4/11/22; Cash is our largest holding; Toe dipping last week proved the water was ice cold How to convert ARMR Report information into success: Conservative: Max Cash Balanced: Max Cash [May hold ARMR Dividend positions to a small degree] Aggressive: Max Cash, Day Trading, [May hold ARMR Dividend positions to a moderate degree] Q&A: As always, we will dedicate time to sharing ideas so bring your best You can also follow us on... StockTwits https://stocktwits.com/ARMRreport Twitter https://twitter.com/BretRosenthal DISCLAIMER: All of ARMRreport, our trades, strategies, and news coverage are based on our opinions alone and are only for educational purposes. You should not take any of this information as guidance for buying or selling any type of investment or security. I am only sharing my biased opinion based off of speculation and personal experience. An individual trader's/investor's results may not be typical and may vary from person to person. It is important to keep in mind that there are risks associated with investing in the stock market and that one can lose all of their investment. Thus, trades/investments should not be based on the opinions of others but by your own research and due diligence.

Today, Shivam will be discussing how Melvin Capital is finally shutting down and how home sales have fallen to their lowest levels since the pandemic. Topics discussed: How Melvin capital is finally shutting down How home sales have fallen to their lowest levels since the pandemic Links mentioned in this episode: invstr.com/nail-in-the-coffin/ invstr.com/low-ceilings/ *invstr.com/20-may-watchlist-4/

Stocks move up and down over the past couple of days. Melvin Capital shuts it's doors for good. Reddit & retail investors cheer!  Hype or Hate:  Danny: Microsoft, Apple, AMD                          Bryan: Lucid, Grab, Tesla Stock Hypers are amateur investors talking about stocks, wall street, business and the markets from a completely uninformed, unprofessional, sometimes nonsensical perspective. Danny and Bryan both are not recommending or pressuring you to buy any stock. If you take their advice you may lose money, your reputation and all your friends. This is meant for pure entertainment and listening pleasure. (Even if all our stocks go skyrocketing in value and we become zillionaires it's best that you, the listener, keep your money in your pocket. We may sound like geniuses but we are just regular Joes) You are forewarned

Heute u.a. mit folgenden Nachrichten: - Tesla-Aktie aus ESG-Index gestrichen - Raketenstarts verschmutzen Atmosphäre - Netflix verliert langjährige Nutzer - Vietnam umgarnt Apple - New York mit mehr Airbnb als Mietwohnungen - Melvin Capital gibt auf - Napster startet als Web3-Unternehmen - Elon Musk Doppelgänger aus Sozialen Netzwerken verschwunden Heute begrüßen wir im Rahmen der Reihe “Investments & Exits” Daniel Wild, Gründer und Aufsichtsrat von Mountain Alliance.

Ce matin, on va essayer de comprendre ensemble pourquoi le secteur de la consommation pèse sur les bourses. Puis, nous allons revenir sur cette affaire de Sofina. Le holding belge est visé par un célèbre shorter, obsédé par les fraudeurs. Que s'est-il donc passé? On vous explique cela dans ce podcast. Le Brief, le podcast matinal de L'Echo  Ce que vous devez savoir avant de démarrer la journée, on vous le sert au creux de l'oreille, chaque matin, en 7 infos, dès 7h. Le Brief, un podcast éclairant, avec l'essentiel de l'info business, entreprendre, investir et politique. Signé L'Echo. Abonnez-vous sur votre plateforme d'écoute favorite Apple Podcast | Spotify | Podcast Addict l Castbox | Deezer | Google Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber explored what to make of the markets extending losses after Wednesday's massive sell-off: The worst for the Dow and S&P 500 since 2020. Jim offers his takeaway for investors. Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins joined the anchors on set for an exclusive interview: They discussed his company's guidance that slammed the stock -- and where the COVID lockdown in China and the war in Ukraine fit into the picture. Also in focus: Navigating inflation and exposure to China, Elon Musk's Twitter rant about Tesla being removed from an S&P ESG index, and Melvin Capital to unwind funds after suffering major losses from meme stocks.

Gina Martin Adams, Bloomberg Intelligence Chief Equity Strategist, discusses volatile markets and the economy. Sonali Basak, Bloomberg News Wall Street reporter, discusses Melvin Capital and what's next for hedge funds. David Kudla, Founder, CEO, and Chief Investment Strategist with Mainstay Capital Management, talks about market volatility and the economy in 2022. Peter Platzer, CEO of Spire, talks about satellite tech and his company. Hosted by Paul Sweeney and Kriti Gupta. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dan Ives, Managing Director and Senior Equity Analyst at WedBush Securities, previews Big Tech earnings and discusses Elon Musk's Twitter bid. Andy Marsh, President and CEO of Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG), talks about his company's new deal with Walmart and renewable energy in the US. Damian Sassower, Chief EM Fixed Income Strategist with Bloomberg Intelligence, talks about the risks of a Beijing lockdown and the Chinese and Russian economies. Sonali Basak, Bloomberg Wall Street reporter, discusses speaking to Anthony Scaramucci about cryptocurrency and overhauling Melvin Capital. Hosted by Matt Miller and Kriti Gupta. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Famed shortseller Bill Ackman and his firm Pershing Square dumped its stake in Netflix yesterday following the streaming service company's disappointing quarterly report. Netflix lost 200,000 subscribers in its latest quarter and expects to lose an additional 2 million subscribers in its next quarter, prompting the stock's worst trading day in over 17 years. CNBC's Phil LeBeau breaks down the key takeaways from Tesla's first-quarter earnings results, which beat Wall Street's estimates. Florida state lawmakers are working to pass a bill that would eliminate Disney's special self-governing status in the state. CNBC's Robert Frank reports on how this could impact Florida residents, and Florida State Rep. Randy Fine, who filed the House legislation, discusses whether it was spurred by the company's response to Florida's ‘Don't Say Gay' bill. Plus, Melvin Capital is attempting a rebrand, Carl Icahn calls out Wall Street ‘hypocrisy' over ESG investing in a letter to McDonald's shareholders.In this episode:Robert Frank, @robtfrankPhil LeBeau, @LebeaucarnewsAndrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkinJoe Kernen, @JoeSquawkMelissa Lee, @MelissaLeeCNBCCameron Costa, @CameronCostaNY

Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber led off the show with Tesla shares up sharply after the company posted a record quarterly profit despite supply chain challenges. The anchors reacted to earnings call comments from Elon Musk: He said he has "never been more optimistic" about Tesla's future. American Airlines and Delta also in rally mode after forecasting profitability for the second quarter. Lululemon CEO Calvin McDonald joined the program exclusively to discuss his company's five-year growth plan to double revenue by 2026. Also in focus: Musk disclosed he has secured $46.5 billion in financing commitments for his Twitter takeover bid, and Bill Ackman's hedge fund dumps its stake in Netflix: The stock extending losses one day after plummeting 35%. Plus, what sources are telling David about embattled hedge fund Melvin Capital.

#shib #shiba #shibcoin #shibarmy #bitcoin #btc #ethereum #crypto #solana #cardano #cryptonews #xrp #ripple #matic #polygon #metaverse #nfts #babydoge #rusia #ucrania #bone #usdt Cada cierto tiempo, en Wall Street se produce lo que en inglés se conoce como un washout (lavado): un fuerte cambio en el mercado que ciertos sectores de inversores no consiguen superar. Actualmente, la bolsa estadounidense está al borde de tal evento por lo que, si estás deseando ver cómo algunos pierden millones, descuida. Lo verás. ¿Por qué ahora? Tras más de una década manteniendo prácticamente a cero los tipos de interés, la Reserva Federal se muestra bastante segura acerca de subirlos varias veces para combatir la inflación. En el mundo de las finanzas, estas subidas son como jugar con la gravedad de la Tierra. Los activos que antes resultaban atractivos (empresas que empleaban capital a bajo coste para crecer de forma rápida sin obtener beneficios) dejarán de serlo. Esto quiere decir que parte de los inversores que apostaron por ese tipo de compañías saldrán perdiendo, algunos incluso sin posibilidad de recuperarse. Estamos antes el inicio de un ciclo bajista. Y según han afirmado algunos de los agentes del mercado de la élite de Wall Street, está claro que esta caída no durará unos meses. Será un proceso de un año, quizás más. "Los que hayan apostado demasiado, se desangrarán sin remedio", comenta un inversor. Se acabó la temporada de la estupidez Antes de la pandemia, el problema más apremiante para los bancos centrales de todo el mundo era la irregular recuperación de la crisis financiera. El crecimiento estaba siendo lento y la inflación se encontraba muy por debajo de su objetivo, lo que llevó a la Reserva Federal y a otros agentes a mantener bajos los tipos de interés para alentar a los bancos a otorgar préstamos y estimular la economía. Unas de las consecuencias de esta decisión fue que cualquier proyecto mediocre era susceptible de obtener financiación. Esto, combinado con una aplicación más bien laxa de la ley corporativa en EEUU, dio como resultado un ambiente en el que los inversores estaban deseosos de comprar. Y todo esto fue antes de que millones de personas aburridas por el confinamiento se lanzaran a invertir a través de aplicaciones como Robinhood. Debido a esto, las empresas (especialmente del sector tecnológico), vieron como sus valoraciones subían hasta límites insospechados. Los vendedores en corto sufrieron las consecuencias, algunos llegando a quebrar como Melvin Capital. "Alcanzamos un pico de estupidez que superaba todas las expectativas", sentencia un inversor. Se trata sin duda del tipo de burbuja que los expertos deberían detectar. Está claro que en Wall Street puedes ganar mucho dinero si te unes a la fiesta, o puedes quedarte sentado mirando. Lo que no puedes hacer es actuar como si la fiesta no acabara nunca. Nunca hay que doparse ante la llegada de una ola de liquidez La pandemia dio a los bancos centrales un problema económico distinto sobre el que preocuparse: la inflación, como resultado de los cuellos de botella en la producción, la falta de trabajadores y el auge de las compras online. El objetivo de la Reserva Federal es mantener la inflación en torno al 2%, y en los años posteriores a la crisis financiera, no lograron alcanzar ese punto de referencia. Ahora, debido a la pandemia, la inflación está por encima del 7% en EEUU, y por encima del 6,5% en España. Las estrategias de la Fed para combatir la inflación son insuficientes. Las subidas de tipo harán que la deuda sea más cara y los inversores ya comienzan a observar más de cerca cómo las empresas generan efectivo contante y sonante, no en 10 años, sino en los próximos trimestres. Es el momento de que las compañías pongan sus finanzas en orden, porque el cambio está llegando muy rápidamente. La situación del mercado de valores se mantendrá durante todo el año, según algunos de los principales inversores de Wall Street, así que prepárate. Llegados a este punto, todas esas acciones de memes, las SPAC, etc. deben demostrar que su negocio actual es rentable y esas altísimas valoraciones están justificadas, o desaparecerán en este ciclo bajista. Por ejemplo, piensa en esas recientes empresas tan atractivas que cotizan en bolsa. En los últimos años han vivido un periodo de fusiones y adquisiciones sin precedentes mientras se apresuraban para salir a bolsa ante todos esos inversores ansiosos por comprar. No obstante, el vendedor en corto predijo que esa horda de OPV tendría un "rendimiento dramáticamente inferior" al mercado. Compañías como Coinbase (casi un 25 % hasta la fecha), Robinhood (-35 %), Beyond Meat (-19 %) y DoorDash (-32 %) cuyas acciones se calentaron al salir al mercado, pero ahora se enfrentan a la realidad. Incluso Tesla ha bajado casi un 30% este año.

On today's Benzinga Live:- Berkshire Hathaway's Annual Shareholder Letter Is OUThttps://berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2021ltr.pdf- The Russian Ruble is crashing- Melvin Capital in troubleGET 25% OFF BENZINGA PRO

Crain's reporter Ally Marotti talks with host Amy Guth about movements from Chicago companies as they brace for the repercussions of Russia's attack on Ukraine. And David Manilow is back with restaurant recommendations including Elina, Lardon, Vistro Prime, Kasama, Basant Modern Indian and Jaleo by José Andrés. Plus: Chicago's guaranteed income pilot set to launch, Illinois has $250 million to prevent a wave of COVID-related foreclosures, Citadel pulls back most of its $2 billion Melvin Capital investment and foreclosure hangs over Mag Mile hotel as Hilton departs.

En el pod-newsletter de hoy: 1. Ray Dalio. 2. Bill Ackman. 3. Melvin Capital 4. Alphabet y Paypal. 5. Basecamp punk founders Puedes leer el podcast, consultar los enlaces de las noticias comentadas y suscribirte a la newsletter en este link: https://nofinancieros.substack.com/p/se-primero-se-listo-o-engaña Otros enlaces de escucha en: https://finpickstonks.carrd.co/ Más en: https://nofinancieros.com/ ¿Te ha molado el podcast? Invítate a algo, ¿no? ;) https://ko-fi.com/nofinancieros

En el pod-newsletter de hoy: 1. Ray Dalio. 2. Bill Ackman. 3. Melvin Capital 4. Alphabet y Paypal. 5. Basecamp punk foundersPuedes leer el podcast, consultar los enlaces de las noticias comentadas y suscribirte a la newsletter en este link: https://nofinancieros.substack.com/p/se-primero-se-listo-o-engañaOtros enlaces de escucha en: https://finpickstonks.carrd.co/Más en: https://nofinancieros.com/¿Te ha molado el podcast? Invítate a algo, ¿no? ;) https://ko-fi.com/nofinancieros

Many businesses have already required workers to get vaccines, and even more could be on the way. Crain's health care reporter Stephanie Goldberg joins host Amy Guth to discuss whether the FDA's full-use approval of the Pfizer vaccine will lead to a wave of vaccine mandates from employers and schools. Plus: The Archdiocese of Chicago requires vaccines and denies religious exemptions, Boeing plans to invest in Virgin Orbit rocket launch efforts, Citadel to pull about $500 million from Melvin Capital and Pentagon drafts United Airlines for Afghanistan evacuation mission.

Zunehmend verabreden sich Kleinanleger in Reddit-Foren – auch um die Vorhaben von Hedgefonds zu durchkreuzen. Wie sich die Börsenwelt dadurch verändert und was das für Anleger heißt. 00:05:57 Ende Januar haben sich über die Plattform „Reddit“ zum ersten Mal hunderttausende Kleinanleger verabredet, um die Aktie des US-Computerspielehändlers GameStop zu kaufen. Hedgefonds hatten zuvor auf fallende Kurse dieses Wertpapiers gesetzt und im großen Stil Leerverkäufe getätigt. Nach dem Zukauf durch die vielen Kleinanleger ist der Aktienkurs von GameStop dann stark angestiegen und hat auf Seite der Hedgefonds, wie bei Melvin Capital, für einen Milliardenverlust gesorgt. Entgegen der Vermutung einiger Experten hat sich seit dem eine nachhaltige Bewegung in der Börsenwelt entwickelt: Anfang Juni hatten es die Kleinanleger auf die Aktie der US-Kinokette AMC abgesehen und auch Blackberry stand eine Zeit lang im Fokus der Trader. Erst letzte Woche haben die sogenannten Reddit-Trader dann auf dem Optionsmarkt zugeschlagen und einige Aktienkurse durcheinandergewirbelt. Doch welche Motive stecken wirklich hinter dieser Bewegung? Wie passen Hedgefonds ihre Strategien an und wie wird diese Bewegung die Börsenwelt zukünftig verändern? Darüber diskutieren der Hedgefonds-Experte Frank Dornseifer und der Trader und Vorsitzende des Börsenvereins in Kiel, Victor Farahwaran, in der heutigen Sendung. Das exklusive Abo-Angebot für Sie als Handelsblatt Today-Hörerinnen und Hörer: https://www.handelsblatt.com/lesen Wenn Sie Anmerkungen, Fragen, Kritik oder Lob zu dieser Folge haben, schreiben Sie uns gerne per Email an today@handelsblatt.com.

Show Notes: 0:00 Bestie game show: Who got COVID? How was the experience? 9:30 Delta breakthrough causing concern, potential new approaches, vaccine mandates 24:26 Implications on the economy, will people self-isolate even without government shutdowns? 40:09 Billionaire Space Race: Addressing the negativity, benefits of innovators 47:29 Investments in space, parallels to 1500's maritime shipping, potential for global broadband 1:04:07 Besties go to space, Bezos' cheap shot, Elon's support, Melvin Capital's tough first half of 2021 Follow the besties: https://twitter.com/chamath https://linktr.ee/calacanis https://twitter.com/DavidSacks https://twitter.com/friedberg Follow the pod: https://twitter.com/theallinpod https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast Intro Music Credit: https://rb.gy/tppkzl https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg Intro Video Credit: https://twitter.com/TheZachEffect Referenced in the show: WSJ Opinion - What Drives GOP Resistance to Vaccines? https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-drives-gop-resistance-to-vaccines-11623190392 NYT - Some Republican Leaders Speak Up for Vaccines https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/14/world/covid-variant-vaccine-updates Reuters - Living with COVID-19: Israel changes strategy as Delta variant hits https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/living-with-covid-19-israel-changes-strategy-delta-variant-hits-2021-07-13/ Study Finds - Over 200 COVID ‘long hauler' symptoms identified, many lasting longer than 6 months https://www.studyfinds.org/200-covid-long-hauler-symptoms/ CNN Opinion - Richard Branson's disappointing space jaunt https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/12/opinions/richard-branson-jeff-bezos-space-flight-is-a-waste-thomas/index.html Truth Out Op-ed - Billionaire Tax Cheat Travels to Space for a Few Minutes https://truthout.org/articles/billionaire-tax-cheat-travels-to-space-for-a-few-minutes Fox News - Richard Branson says critics are 'not fully educated' on benefits of space travel https://www.foxnews.com/media/richard-branson-critics-not-fully-educated-space-travel CNBC - Investment in space companies put at record $8.9 billion in 2020 despite Covid https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/25/investing-in-space-companies-hits-record-8point9-billion-in-2020-report.html Bloomberg - Melvin Struggles to Shake Reddit Attack With 46% Loss So Far https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-08/melvin-can-t-shake-reddit-attack-with-46-loss-in-first-half Books: Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary https://www.amazon.com/Project-Hail-Mary-Andy-Weir/dp/0593135202 Jeremy England - Every Life Is on Fire https://www.amazon.com/Every-Life-Fire-Thermodynamics-Explains/dp/1541699017 Tweets: https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1415287991954640901 https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1415122089720254467 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1414157827145404419 https://twitter.com/blueorigin/status/1413521627116032001 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1386825367948644352

James Angel is a Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania & Georgetown University Professor who specializes in the market structure and regulation of global financial markets. ''Dr. Jim'' has testified before Congress about issues relating to the design of financial markets. In addition, he has been quoted in hundreds of newspaper articles and has appeared numerous times on radio and television. In today's episode, some of the things we talked about were: the Gamestop and Robinhood fiasco, the current bull market we have been in and where it will head, proper investment analysis, the drawbacks of cryptocurrencies, strategies in finding your calling, and much more! Dangerously Good with Jay Sikand is a long-form podcast where Jay explores dangerously good topics and ideas! This show is about learning new things and sharing that journey with the world! Expanding the minds and imaginations of those who want to partake. Expect new episodes and clips every Tuesday! Watch the podcast on the Dangerously Good YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Ky07outjs) & For CLIPS of the podcast, subscribe to the Dangerously Good Clips Youtube channel! (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChmDAQzfpNdmEi10lqBReuQ) Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 1:03 - The rise of the retail investor and why it's a good thing! 10:27 - “Robinhood is the promise of fintech” 17:53 - Inefficiencies in the market and how to improve them 34:04 - Explanation of how Melvin Capital shorted Gamestop stock 38:56 - Does the current state of the US mirror the roaring 20s? 47:17 - Is the market in a bubble? 52:46 - Why Bitcoin is the greatest marketing ploy in history 1:14:58 - Banks & Gov launching their own crypto 1:20:16 - The market is priced incorrectly 1:23:37 - Future effect of A.I. on the financial market 1:27:42 - Impact of hedge funds 1:30:27 - What James is most grateful for 1:32:15 - Strategic way to choose a path in life About Jay Sikand: He is a podcaster, actor, tech nerd, and lover of life that explores ideas from entertainment, technology, philosophy, politics, health, fitness to whatever else is intriguing. He has conversations with friends and people of strong morals, ambitions, and intelligence within their fields. Anyone who wants to journey through enlightening conversions that contain dangerously good information should tune in! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jay-sikand/support

In today's show, $AMC #AMCARMY #AMC100k AMC Squeeze Hasn't Even Started!!! Listen in $UWMC Why You Should Have This On Your Watchlist, and Crypto Is Starting To Wake Up! AMC Entertainment is after all one of the most heavily shorted companies in the market. So why hasn't this stock shot up to the moon yet!?! Shorts and hedge funds alike continue to lose money every day they hold. Shouldn't they be covered by now? More and more institutional buyers are bulking up on the stock, retail investors continue to hold and buy the dip, so what are we missing? AMC's market volume hasn't been as high as we need it to be if we're to see a short squeeze. In recent weeks AMC stock volume has been below 100 million. The highest volume we've seen so far (post gamma squeeze) was back in February where the volume reached over 400 million! This is the area AMC will need to be in if we want to continue to drive the price action up again. Trey's Trades has mentioned the perfect squeeze setup will require the volume to sit around 400-500 million-plus. Shorts haven't covered their positions which means they're holding just like retail investors are. The only difference is they're paying an interest fee until they close their positions. Melvin Capital, a hedge fund who shorts both AMC and GameStop stock has reportedly suffered a 49% loss in its first quarter. The reason being is they have not closed their short positions. This hedge fund along with short-sellers is losing money every day due to the short borrow fee continuously increasing. Short sellers are sitting on nearly $1 billion in losses. UWM Holdings Corp (NYSE: UWMC) could be the next stock to make a GameStop Corp (NYSE: GME)-type of rally amid recent chatter on Reddit threads, according to an article from the Detroit Free Press. What To Know: Traders on the subreddit r/wallstreetbets are well-known for targeting stocks with high short interest. As of April 30, UWM had a 13.23% short interest. Some Reddit traders have recently nominated the stock as a potential short squeeze candidate. $ARKX $XOM $TSLA $AAL $BNGO $MARA $O $CRWD $FB $AAPL $FCEL $MGM $GOOGL $RBLX $SHOP $MTCH $DIS $PDD $ $TWTR $AMZN $NIO $CHPT $GOEV $PLTR $T $NVDA $GM $ABNB $UONE $PTON $ $DDD $U $VIAC $VIACA Bitcoin Ethereum, Stellar XLM Control the Cash balance today and position yourself accordingly. Let's GO!!!!! Research Links: www.Finviz.com www.Nasdaq.com Learn more about options: https://tinyurl.com/Compounding-Lifestyle Music-Footprints-Playglenthomas Voice Mail link, show us some love, call in to ask questions: https://anchor.fm/compounding-lifestyle/message (copy/paste the URL) Robinhood link: https://join.robinhood.com/arristw DISCLAIMER: These Podcasts are for educational purposes only. Nothing in this podcast should be construed as financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any sort of security or investment. Consult with a professional financial advisor before making any financial decisions. Do your research and due diligence. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/compounding-lifestyle/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/compounding-lifestyle/support

Benn Eifert is the managing member and CIO of QVR Advisors, a quantitatively-driven, options-and volatility-focused investment manager. QVR helps institutional investors navigate the highly complex derivatives market. Listen in as Benn talks to Richard about the Genesis of QVR, the evolution of the Derivatives Markets as well as how his firm adds value to clients. Benn also delves into his background, the GameStop Gamma Squeeze, Retail Activity in the Options Market and much more. To learn more about Benn please visit www.qvradvisors.com or follow him on Twitter @bennpeifert.  To learn more about Richard please visit www.thinkaen.com. Show Notes: (01:14) About Benn and QVR (03:42) Time spent at Wells Fargo, Prop Desk (04:32) The Derivatives  and the time of the Wild West, Benn explaining Derivatives versus other instruments (09:51) The shift from Over the Counter (OTC) Derivatives to Listed Derivatives (12:09) Equity Options and Retail Trading (13:03) Regulators and other Watch Dogs (15:32) Delving into QVR, Process Driven Advisor, U.S Allocation, Different Asset Classes (18:29) Recurring Thematic Dislocations (22:31) AMC and GameStop, Roaring Kitty (27:35) Gamma Squeeze (28:32) Implied Volatility and how it impacts the markets (30:35) Melvin Capital and what exactly happened (33:32) AQR and its hunt for dislocations (34:35) What led Benn to start a fund, setting up his Team (37:12) Talking about his Popular "Junior Analyst" Interview Questions (39:05) It all comes down to Supply and Demand (42:57) Learning from mistakes, unwinding trades (43:24) Cycling in San Francisco and the Cycling Jersey (44:00) Peleton, Family Life and Closing Remarks  

In this week's episode, Dan and Kyle discuss Biden's infrastructure plan and the hurdles it faces along with Amazon's unionization vote. We also touch on Ryan Cohen's new appointment and Melvin Capitals staggering losses last quarter. We also changed our format and swapped the Stocks and Options segments with Investing and Trading (songs to be updated soon!) In this new format, Kyle talks about his plan to replace his income by selling options premiums. With a new month, we have a new bet and someone takes a big lead!Our podcast is sponsored by Sue Pullen at Fairway Independent Mortgage (MLS# 206048). Licensed in 25 states, if you need anything mortgage related, reach out to her at SPullen@fairwaymc.com. Tell her 2 bulls sent you to get the best rates available! If you like our show, please let us know by liking and subscribing. You can also email us directly at 2bulls@financialineptitude.com or leave a message at (725) 22 BULLS. Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, or Discord to get updated when new content is posted!New to trading? Check out our Beginner's Stock Market and Options 101 bonus episodes!If you like our show, please let us know by rating and subscribing on your platform of choice! If you like our show and hate social media, then please tell all your friends! If you have no friends and hate social media and you want to give us money to pay for advertising to help you find more friends, then you can donate here! Twitter Poll:https://twitter.com/FinancialInept1/status/1381083275276484611?s=20Links:Infrastructure HurdlesAmazon Unionization voteGME names Cohen ChairmanDiscordhttps://discord.gg/Q8hft2zMTMBeginner Bonus Episodes:Intro to the Stock MarketOptions 101Covered Calls How ToMonth End Reviews:March 2021Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This newsletter is really a public policy thought-letter. While excellent newsletters on specific themes within public policy already exist, this thought-letter is about frameworks, mental models, and key ideas that will hopefully help you think about any public policy problem in imaginative ways. It seeks to answer just one question: how do I think about a particular public policy problem/solution?PS: If you enjoy listening instead of reading, we have this edition available as an audio narration on all podcasting platforms courtesy the good folks at Ad-Auris. If you have any feedback, please send it to us.- RSJWe have been trying to make sense of the three key trends dominating the global financial markets over the past 12 months - the excess liquidity in the system driven by loose monetary policies and stimulus announced by central banks the world over, the persistence of the central banks to keep interest rates at historic lows without worrying about potential inflation, and the booming equity markets that seem to be completely divorced from the ground economic realities during the pandemic. You can read some of our previous posts on these here and here.How long can these trends sustain? Who knows? The perpetual optimism on which the wheels of finance move shows no signs of abating. Now, history has shown these are trends that are neither sustainable nor safe for ordinary investors. But optimism is the opium of the masses. “This time it is different” is what you usually hear as a record new stimulus is passed or markets touch new highs. But like Scott Sagan wrote in his book, The Limits of Safety: “Things that have never happened before happen all the time.” Three Strikes And…The world is full of surprises and three events in the past quarter should give regulators and investors a pause. First, Melvin Capital lost half of its $13bn fund during the GameStop saga in January this year. Melvin had taken massive leveraged short positions against the GameStop stock convinced its business model has no future. Well, the Redditors on WallStreetBets organised themselves to do the world’s first RNS (radically networked society) driven short squeeze. Melvin couldn’t reverse out of the trade soon enough. Only an emergency line of $2.75bn from other hedge funds kept it afloat. We have covered the GameStop shenanigans here.Second, the collapse of Greensill Capital, a ‘supply chain finance’ company doing Enron-like things in a decidedly dull corner of finance. The full impact of its fallout is yet to be ascertained. The collateral damage so far has been impressive: London-based steelmaker GFG alliance (run by India-born Sanjeev Gupta) is facing an existential crisis; a German retail bank that Greensill had bought has gone down; Credit Suisse that funded Greensill through securitisation of its invoice finance arrangement had to write down huge losses; Bluestone Resources, a US-based coal mining company that’s left high and dry without Greensill’s funding pipeline; and Tokio Marine Insurance that underwrote the risks Greensill’s clients and investors in Credit Suisse funds were taking is still counting its losses. The Greensill story is a good example of how it is not different this time. Supply chain financing has been around for a long time. Company A buys goods from a smaller Supplier B and promises to pay it (say) in 90 days. Ideally, B would like to be paid immediately but it usually lacks the bargaining power. Company A would prefer to pay as late as possible since it improves its cash flow and use it to further its business. Enter C, the Supply Chain Financier. C promises to pay B faster but at a small discount as the cost of getting its money quickly. It then collects the full amount from A. In a way, C pays on behalf of A and then collects the money from A over a period of time. It is like a traditional short-term loan that’s backed by the security of the invoice. And how does C get the money to pay to the suppliers faster? Usually, C would issue commercial papers (unsecured promissory notes) to obtain funds from market participants looking to park their excess funds for a short-term to back their invoice arrangements. The spread it makes between the two is C’s business.But in a world where the liquidity is high, interest rates low and stock markets at their peaks, there’s always money looking for avenues to make some ‘extra’ return. Greensill had a perfect plan for them. Instead of issuing commercial papers, it securitised the supplier invoices into short-term assets and offered them to the likes of Credit Suisse and other asset management firms. In other words, these invoices were turned into a different financial instrument which could now be positioned differently to investors. With this, the stage was set to get into riskier bets and shuffle the risk around in a way that made investors believe they were still investing in a safe supply chain financing instrument than something more complex. These investment firms launched Greensill-linked funds and raised money from investors who were drawn to the promise of almost risk-free returns that were higher than money market funds. Greensill also got insurance companies to back the risks underlying these funds to make them appear safer and more attractive. This was mortgage-backed securities (MBS) that brought down Lehman Brothers in 2008 all over again. Not content with this, Greensill went a step further. It started advancing funds to its clients based on anticipated future invoices. That is, there was no supplier and no goods purchased. But it was giving money in anticipation of business being done with a supplier in future. In effect, it started offering long-term loans to its clients in the guise of short-term, low-risk loans with neither the insurer nor the funds like Credit Suisse being wiser to their tricks. It was only a matter of time before the house of cards would collapse. Third, the implosion of hedge fund Archegos Capital late last week caused by extreme leverage. With GameStop and Melvin Capital, the leverage was on the short. With Archegos, it was on the long side. It borrowed money from the usual Wall Street names - Nomura, Credit Suisse (again!), Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. But it used a derivative known as Total Return Swaps (TRS). The mechanics of this were simple. The hedge fund borrows money from the Bank to invest in stocks through a swap agreement. The hedge fund pays a small interest to the Bank, say, 2.5 per cent. The bank pays out any upside of investment made by the fund back to it. If there are losses, the hedge fund makes it up for the bank. This means the hedge fund makes investments without owning the asset. The bank has no real downside. The bank loves TRS because they make large fees from such arrangement without setting aside a lot of capital when compared to actual trading in securities. Being flush with liquidity in a low-interest environment makes such arrangements appear too good to resist for the banks. Things were going well for Archegos as it went about building massive levered long positions in media stocks like ViacomCBS and Discovery and various Chinese internet stocks. Some of these were quite illiquid stocks where Archegos almost owned half of the total stocks available for trade. Till ViacomCBS, whose stock had gone up 3X over the past year, decided to do a $3bn share sale wanting to capitalise on its good fortune. This backfired and the stock nosedived. This triggered a margin call and we were back to 2008 again. Archegos couldn’t cough up funds to cover the losses and the brokers dumped the shares on their behalf. The forced liquidation led to a massive selloff late last week across markets. Nomura and Credit Suisse couldn’t get out fast enough and warned of significant impact to their earnings. The worries of a contagion started going around. No one is sure if the collateral damage has been contained.Safety Valves Or Canaries?One way to look at these three events is to consider them as the safety valves of capitalism. There are excesses that happen in each cycle and the market mechanism is subverted by a few players. But there is a reckoning soon enough and the markets are better off for it.The other way is to view them as early signs of a looming crisis - the canaries in a coal mine. It is often said bubbles aren’t merely about skyrocketing valuations. The underlying truth to any bubble is the shortening of time horizons in the market. Everyone is out there to get rich and get out as quickly as possible. This snowballs very quickly attracting more short-term traders to make massive bets with levered money with ever-shrinking time horizons. The markets might well take these events into their stride (as they seem to have done). The three firms collapse and everyone moves on. That’s the end of it.Or maybe not. This might just be a beginning. HomeWork[Article] Apropos of nothing related to this post: Robin Hanson on “how best to explain UFOs if they are in fact aliens!” Get on the email list at publicpolicy.substack.com

Nearly one year ago, GameStop stock was trading under $4 a share. This past month, it would rise to an intra-day high of over $480. The sharp move happened over just a few days, with momentum building like a snowball, marking one of the biggest short squeezes in history. At first, the story started out much more boring: value investors hunting for bargains. We'll explore this story from all angles. The Reddit message board, Wall Street Bets, with millions of retail investors going long. Melvin Capital, the New York based hedge fund that lost billions shorting the stock. Citron Research and Andrew Left, famous for putting out short-based research reports. Robinhood App, a popular brokerage with younger people, which offers no-fee trades. Investors like Michael Burry and Scotty Jackson, who run small hedge funds. The complex inner workings of the financial system—what exactly happens behind the scenes after you click buy or sell. And the market makers based out of Chicago, not Wall Street, who receive order flow. And the man at the center of it all, Keith Gill, also known as Roaring Kitty on his YouTube channel, and Deep F-ing Value on Reddit—who turned around $50,000 into millions. Some say it's a populist tale of the average Joe or Jill versus the suits. And others claim it was just reckless gambling. But in the end, it's a story as old as time—hype and momentum, mixed in with animal spirits, and a pinch of FOMO for good measure. The pendulum of price, swinging from fear to greed, and back again. So grab your popcorn or maybe some chicken tenders and settle in. From TwinPalmsProductions, this is Short Squeeze. The story of how WallStreetBets went up against a hedge fund and sent GameStop to the moon.

In this episode we review what happened during last week's congressional hearing involving the GameStop Short Squeeze and what may (or may not) evolve from those proceedings.

The rush on shares by individual investors, into struggling US video game store chain Gamestop was portrayed as an attempt by a new breed of retail investors to thwart hedge funds which were shorting the stock. Some investors won big, others lost everything and one hedge fund, Melvin Capital, lost half of its $13bn fund. Was this really a David and Goliath fight, signalling a win for retail stock pickers, collaborating on social media platforms like Reddit? And has it changed the future of investing? Evan Davis and guests discuss. GUESTS Holly MacKay, Founder and MD, Boring Money Jack Inglis, CEO of Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) Mo and Danny, Online retail investors

In preparation for the introduction of I'm with RJ's Executive Club, we collaborated with rappers Forsyth (https://www.forsythmusic.com/) and Big Satch (@100_wattz_203 on IG) to produce a track all about living life right.Inspired by the meme stock craze, Wall Street Bets, Melvin Capital and all the other ways we hustle to get by, Getting the Money is just the beginning of much more to come.Kick back, smoke one if you got it and vibe with Forsyth and Big Satch as the talk about Getting the Money 

TABLE OF CONTENT TALKING POINTS Episode 352-21-2021(Host Scene)Zazz - Welcome to Table of Content. A show by streamers for streamers and the wonderful people who support them. I am Zazzaboo your host and the Editor in Chief of TableOC.com. We have two great streamers here tonight ready to drop their opinions on us about the latest but first~Welcome StumpAlso now that we are on a new channel that is un affiliated you can support the podcast by subscribing to our patreon. There is special content there for all subscribers including My personal Vlog. You can subscribe for that same $5 like you would on Twitch or if you would like to there are several higher tier subscriptions to help fund the News sight and the podcast.As always we love your support no matter if it's monetary, hate mail or just keeping us company in chatIntro guests - Gracing us with his presence once again the Pun Prince of Twitch Mr Symphonic313.We are also joined fresh out of the gym, sporting massive gains The TigheCon of Twitch TighefighterX1Streaming NewsTwitch Streamer Made $16,000 Filming Himself SleepingTwitch can be a great way to make a bit of extra money and some streamers are coming up with new ways to bring in donations.From techgeekedTwitch streamer Asian Andy made $16,000 in one night while filming himself sleeping.He set up text-to-speech for his comments and let the audience have their fun.Andy also had an Alexa available for the audience to use in their comments.The commenters messed with him by pretending someone was looking in his window, faking alarm noises, and making Alexa play annoying songs.Although he didn't get much sleep that night, I'm sure he wasn't upset considering how much money he made.Andy has a following of about 40,000 people on Twitch, which he uses to film other hilarious antics.He thanked his audience for their generosity, stating that he used to drive for Uber and now he doesn't have to any more thanks to their support.  Despite this idea being hilarious, it isn't new. Other streamers have been doing this trend since 2017 and making money, although not as much as Andy. Apparently, allowing people to interrupt your sleep in comedic ways is very popular streaming content.Symph: If this sort of stream can take off what other antics do you think we can monetize?Twitch streamer banned: video appears to show him yell at toddler, dogThe internet is forever kids. Every dumb thing you say and do online will follow you. One streamer is going to be learning that the hard way.From insiderTwitch streamer KillaMfCam has been banned from the platform after a clip of him appearing to scream at his dog and child on stream went viral. The small streamer, whose Twitter banner reads "Aspiring gamer, single father of a beatiful [sic] 3yr old" had his account taken down hours after the clip circulated online.On Monday, YouTuber Frizzable tuned into KillaMfCam's stream after just killing the streamer in Escape from Tarkov, a survival shooter.  The 21-year-old posted a two-minute edited clip of what he saw on stream as well as linking the full recording, so viewers could make up their minds for themselves.After being defeated, KillaMfCam got up out of his chair and started yelling at something off-camera. After a string of expletives at a screaming child The clip ends with the streamer saying "I'm going to break your f--- neck dude."As the original tweet started to become more popular, calls for KillaMfCam to get banned from Twitch started to gain traction. On Tuesday, his account was suspended on the platform, though it's unclear if it is permanent. A representative for Twitch told Insider, "We do not tolerate threats of violence on Twitch, and consider these zero-tolerance violations. We take swift action to indefinitely suspend accounts associated with these activities when they are reported to us."Stump: Do you think Twitch has a responsibility to report something like this to authorities?Twitch and Facebook Gaming set record highs in JanuaryIn our first story, Just exactly how big can the streaming industry grow? Will the growth keep reaching new heights? It did last month.From gameindustry.bizLive streaming continues to grow, as the latest report from StreamElements and analytics partner Rainmaker.gg (formerly Arsenal.gg) says Twitch and Facebook Gaming both more than doubled the numbers of hours watched in January 2021 compared to January of 2020.StreamElements says Twitch and Facebook Gaming saw a 117% increase year-over-year in January 2021, with Twitch's all-time high reached at over 2 billion hours and Facebook Gaming exceeding 439 million hours.On Twitch, the Just Chatting category led with 242 million hours watched, followed by survival game Rust at 189 million and League of Legends at third place with 163 million.These numbers top those from a record-setting month in December, when Twitch accumulated 1.7 billion hours watched and Facebook Gaming picked up 388 million hours.Tighe: How high can we go from here? At what point does traditional media take a back seat to new media like streaming?Tech/Gaming NewsNvidia is nerfing its new RTX 3060 for Ethereum cryptocurrency miningLooking for a new Nvidia 3060 video card? Well this one might not be exactly what you are looking for.Nvidia is purposefully making its new RTX 3060 graphics cards less efficient to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency. New drivers that will accompany the release of the GPUs later this month will reduce the hash rate of Ethereum mining by around 50 percent, using software detection for cryptocurrency mining.It's clear Nvidia is making the changes to try to help with the availability of its GeForce products. Nvidia is offering a new Cryptocurrency Mining Processor (CMP) for Ethereum miners instead. These will include the best performance for mining and efficiency, but they won't handle graphics at all. Nvidia says these CMP products, crucially, “don't impact the availability of GeForce GPUs to gamers.”The CMP products won't have display inputs so they can be more densely packed into systems designed for mining. Nvidia is also ensuring CMPs have lower peak core voltage and frequency to improve the big power requirements associated with Ethereum mining. “With CMP, we can help miners build the most efficient data centers while preserving GeForce RTX GPUs for gamers,” says Wuebbling.Symph: Is this just a pr stunt by nvidia to show they are making an effort to help with the availability of gpus?Renowned GameStop investor 'Roaring Kitty' hit with a securities-fraud lawsuit over his role in the stock's epic surgeSecondly, The mania over the Wallstreetbets stock frenzy over gamestop doesn't seem to want to come to an end. One of the leaders of the movement RoaringKitty is not the target of a lawsuit.More from business insider,Keith Gill, who goes by RoaringKitty on Twitter and YouTube, was hit with a securities-fraud lawsuit over his role in the rise of GameStop stock, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.Gill gained a following as he documented his "YOLO" trade in GameStop on Reddit's Wall Street Bets forum for more than a year. He invested $53,000 in GameStop stock and call options in June 2019. The value of those securities peaked at about $48 million during GameStop's epic short squeeze last month.Gill was named in a proposed class-action lawsuit filed in Massachusetts on Tuesday alleging that he misrepresented himself as an amateur investor when in reality he was a licensed securities professional, Bloomberg reported. The suit also alleged that Gill profited from GameStop's rise by artificially inflating the price of the stock."Gill's deceitful and manipulative conduct not only violated numerous industry regulations and rules, but also various securities laws by undermining the integrity of the market for GameStop shares," the lawsuit said, according to Bloomberg.Gill and the CEOs of Robinhood, Reddit, Melvin Capital, and Citadel are set to testify before Congress on Thursday about the GameStop saga.Tighe: Even though he is a finance professional Gill is one man. How do you feel about lawsuits going after the “little guy” for finding an opening in the system?Amazon's MMO New World gets a third delay and updated beta detailsNext up more woes for video game developers in 2021 as Amazons new MMO New world gets another delay.Gamesradar has this to sayAmazon Game Studios has delayed its upcoming MMORPG New World once again, this time pushing it to August 31, 2021.New World was previously delayed from May to August 2020, and it was more recently pushed to spring 2021. Compared to its second delay, this move to August 31 is comparatively small. Amazon is also speaking in more specific terms with regards to dates and time frames, so while this isn't necessarily the game's final delay, it seems that New World is coming into some form."We've been hard at work on compelling end-game features we believe are important to include at launch," a development update explains. "These features won't be ready for the spring timeframe that we had communicated."Many of these newly added features will be available in the New World closed beta test, which is now scheduled to launch on July 20.Stump: Should studios  just stop making promises they clearly cant keep?Entertainment News'Mortal Kombat' Movie Trailer: First Look at the Bloody New MovieFINISH HIM! The new mortal Kombat trailer is out. Here is what the thrillist had to say.One moment in the new Mortal Kombat trailer perhaps tells you all you need to know about what kind of violent, over-the-top movie this is going to be. The warrior known as Sub-Zero (Joe Taslim) stabs someone with his ice knife, and then, using his freezing powers, makes a second knife from the blood that spurts from that first wound. Yes, it's pretty gnarly.The latest attempt to bring the iconic video game to the big screen is directed by first time feature director Simon McQuoid, best known previously for his work on commercials. (The first adaptation, directed by Paul W. S. Anderson in 1995, remains a ridiculous, difficult to top cult classic.) The plot, as far as we can tell, centers around an MMA fighter named Cole (Lewis Tan), who assembles a team of superhumans to enter into a fighting tournament to stop an impending apocalypse. But really you're in it to see the brutal fatalities, right? Well, they are there. As is that key catchphrase, "Finish him!"Mortal Kombat, being a Warner Bros. release, is hitting theaters and HBO Max April 16.Symphonic: Was this a title you played as a kid or is this only exciting for us boomers?HBO Max Is Developing A Constantine Reboot With JJ AbramsConstantine is hardly DC's highest-profile character, but he's apparently one of the most adaptable; HBO Max is prepping a new series for the character in partnership with J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot production company, according to a report from Deadline.The series will focus on a slightly younger version of John Constantine, the lead character from the Hellblazer comics. The creators are apparently looking for a non-white actor for the role. According to the report, the show will focus on the comic's horror roots more than the religious focus that previous incarnations have generally focused on. Newcomer Guy Bolton is writing the pilot script, and the series will reportedly connect to HBO Max's planned Justice League Dark, which Abrams is also producing.DC previously preferred to keep its live-action incarnations to one actor playing one character, but the success of the CW's The Flash weakened that resolve, and the on-screen appearances of three different Barry Allen Flashes and three Supermen for the CW's Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover all but shattered it.The show is in the early stages of planning, so we don't know when it'll premiere, but when it does it will join HBO Max's growing list of dark DC Comics shows alongside the likes of James Gunn's Peacemaker, Justice League Dark, and DC Universe shows Doom Patrol and Titans, along with more traditional superhero fare like the announced Green Lantern show..Stump: With now 2 constantines on the horizon which do you think will be the bigger hit?Looks Like Robert Pattinson's The Batman Has Experienced Another COVID-Related SetbackRobert Pattinson's stunt double on The Batman recently tested positive for COVID-19, according to The Sun. As a result, the stuntman and his team were forced to isolate for ten days. This marks the third time The Batman has had to contend with a positive COVID case on set. Last year, Robert Pattinson himself reportedly tested positive as did another member of the movie's stunt team. Pattinson's diagnosis came shortly after the film restarted production in the UK following the initial pandemic lockdown.As you can imagine, this latest case of COVID can't be easy for Matt Reeves and Warner Bros. to deal with. A source tells The Sun that although the studio's testing methods are proving to be effective, having the lead stuntman and his team away from set is a reportedly “a headache” for Warner Bros.Despite this, it actually seems the film's production timeline won't be too heavily affected by this new development. The source did go on to say that filming is still set to wrap on time: The Batman is currently scheduled to hit theaters on March 4, 2022.Tighe: As with video games should movies alter their release schedules or just stop hyping things so early?BOLD PREDICTIONSRoaringkitty will not lose the court case or cases pending against him.Plug your stuff.Zazzaboo plug the site, Pod etcDon't forget to check out the patreon.Thanks and we will see you next week!★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Join the conversation between RJ and rappers Big Satch and Forsyth  as they discuss their favorite hip hop albums, Wu-Tang Clan vs TI, Wall St Bets, Meme Stonks and Doinks plus a whole lot more.For the first time ever, hear the instant classic "Getting the Money" in its entirety - a song all about Game Stop, Melvin Capital and living life 100% all the time.I'm with RJ is also dropping a very special edition flash drive which includes Getting the Money to remind you that stocks always go up and winners never quit - look for that Monday at 420pm EST via www.imwithrj.com/marketplaceCome home with us, smoke zones with us as we premier Getting the Money featuring Big Satch and Forsyth, produced by I'm with RJ!

¿Por qué WSB puso en jaque a Melvin Capital y otros Hedge Funds? Puedes encontrarme en Twitter: @DavidCurros

Location: Remotely Date: Friday 5th February Company: SwanBitcoin Role: Founder We are just over a month into 2021, and it has already been a wild start of the year for Bitcoin and the broader financial markets. The r/wallstreetbets subreddit took it to Wall Street by collectively buying up the heavily shorted GameStop (GME). The stock price went from around $20 in mid-January to over $450 in less than two weeks, wiping a staggering $4.5 billion off Melvin Capital's balance sheet. In early February, corporate Bitcoin evangelist Michael Saylor held his ‘Bitcoin for Corporations' event which around 7,000 companies attended. Just days after the conference, Tesla announced that they had bought $1.5bn of Bitcoin. With any bull market, shitcoins also see an increase in activity. With the rise of Clubhouse, the salesmen are out in force. Yet, Bitcoiners are marshalling the rooms, educating newcomers on why Bitcoin is the only asset they should be considering. In this interview, I talk to Cory Klippsten, the founder of SwanBitcoin. We discuss how shitcoiners are invading Clubhouse, r/wallstreetbets, corporations buying Bitcoin, and which nation-states will first disclose a Bitcoin position first.

In today's podcast Patrick Boyle interviews Victor Haghani, former Long Term Capital Management Partner about Salomon Brothers in the days of Liars Poker, What it was like working at LTCM, different approaches to investing, short squeezes, arbitrage and how Victor invests today. We talk briefly about the GameStop short squeeze, Melvin Capital and why Steve Cohen and Citadel might have invested more money.Victor has spent more than 40 years in the world of finance, from the London School of Economics to Salomon Brothers to LTCM and finally to Elm Partners, Victor has a wealth of knowledge to share about indexing, value investing, momentum risk management and international diversification.Subscribe to Victors mailing list: https://elmfunds.com/blog/Victor's Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yJWABvUXiU&t=26sBooks Mentioned in the video: Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis: https://amzn.to/3asrt7NWhen Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein: https://amzn.to/3pKOrxjInside The Yield Curve by Martin Leibowitz :https://amzn.to/2NVkaxHTriumph of The Optimists by Elroy Dimson: https://amzn.to/2LcixL5 Patrick's Books:Statistics for The Trading Floor:  https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Derivatives For The Trading Floor:  https://amzn.to/3cjsyPFCorporate Finance:  https://amzn.to/3fn3rvC Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/PatrickBoyleOnFinanceVisit our website: www.onfinance.orgFollow Patrick on Twitter Here: https://twitter.com/PatrickEBoyleSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/PatrickBoyleOnFinance)

In this episode, we explain what exactly has been going on in their GameStop stock crisis. We will discuss the subreddit forum, wallstreetbets, and why they intentionally bought up all the stocks to raise the price. We will discuss Melvin Capital's role in all of this and how firms such as Steve Cohen's Pivot72 were greatly affected. We will give our insight on the Robinhood trading platform, and if they're guilty of corruption. Interesting Fact: In 2020, 35% of robinhood's revenue came from MelvinCapital. Some believe that robinhood closed the GameStop trading platform to protect Melvin Capital. Those who believe robinhood isn't guilty think it's because of the 100% collateral requirement, which discourages investment because people could end up bankrupt in the process. Listen to this episode for the full story! Coming soon to a device near you!! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Hello Unengineers! We're riding the high click rate wave that the terms "r/wallstreetbets", "Melvin Capital", "Gamestop", "short squeeze", etc have this week, so stick around as we explain all of that and more in this episode. Also throwing around some speculation and insight into influencer-led stock markets and "meme stocks", and inform you about the Flipkart offer that gained a lot of negative slack online. Enjoy!! Check out our clips channel: http://bit.ly/UnengineeredclipsYT​ Give us topics or ask us questions in the comments :) We have a WEBSITE!: https://www.unengineered.net/​ Follow us! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theunengine... ​Advait: https://www.instagram.com/lifeofadvait/ ​Atique: https://www.instagram.com/anteeqboiii/​ Edit by: https://www.instagram.com/fotodada/​ #unengineers​ #getunengineered

Hij bedoelde dat je beter de WhatsApp-concurrent Signal kunt gebruiken. Het beursgenoteerde Signal Advance is echter een medisch bedrijf zonder fulltime medewerkers. Nu zou iedereen zo langzamerhand toch wel moeten weten wat Musk bedoelde. Maar de koers van Signal Advance staat nog steeds 861 procent hoger dan voor de tweet. De verklaring hiervoor zit in een standaard denkfout, genaamd loss aversion. Men haat het om met verlies te verkopen. Beleggingsverlies Als je het beleggingsverlies realiseert is dat een bevestiging dat je iets stoms hebt gedaan. En dat wil het ego te allen tijde vermijden. Hetzelfde geldt voor de huidige bezitters van aandelen Gamestop. De fundamentele waarde van het bedrijf is waarschijnlijk een stuk lager dan de huidige beurskoers. De koers ging alleen maar omhoog doordat de Reddit-meute het met zn allen kocht en in de hoop dat shorters het op een hoger niveau moesten kopen. Luister terug | Corné van Zeijl | Trumps economisch rapportcijfer Dat aanvalsplan heeft gewerkt, maar het is nu klaar. De meeste shorters hebben hun verlies genomen. Als je nu nog Gamestop-aandelen in portefeuille hebt, is dat waarschijnlijk aan het fenomeen loss aversion te wijten. Fed-lid Neel Kaskhari zei afgelopen week dat het verlies van deze speculanten hun eigen schuld is en dat de Fed ze niet zal redden. Een terechte opmerking. Je wilt als centrale bank immers niet uitstralen dat je alle stommiteiten van speculanten opvangt. Dat verstoort de risico perceptie. Huizenbubbel Maar laten we wel wezen, dat klopt niet helemaal. In het verleden heeft de Fed vaak genoeg ingegrepen om de gevolgen van een gebarsten bubbel op te vangen. De Fed stapte in de markt bij het omvallen van hedgefonds LTCM in 1998 en het knappen van de huizenbubbel in 2008. Echter: in beide voorbeelden zouden de economische effecten zonder de hulp van de Fed vrij dramatisch zijn geweest. Bij de Gamestop-bubbel zijn de slachtoffers slechts wat kleine beleggers. Luister terug | Corné van Zeijl | Hoeksteenbeleggers bieden de helpende hand Bovendien heeft de Reddit-gemeenschap er per saldo wel geld aan verdiend. De grote hedgefondsen, zoals Citron Research en Melvin Capital, hebben hun verlies moeten nemen. Dit verlies is de winst voor de Reddit-meute. Alleen de groep met Reddit-speculanten die in de laatste golf meededen is flink het schip in gegaan. Zij hadden beter moeten luisteren naar de oude tegeltjeswijsheid 'zij die achter de kudde aanlopen, lopen altijd door de stront'. Over de column van Corné van Zeijl Corné van Zeijl is analist en strateeg bij vermogensbeheerder Actiam en belegt ook privé. Reageer via corne.vanzeijl@actiam.nl. Deze column kun je ook iedere vrijdag lezen in het FD. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last week a group of Redditors from the subreddit r/WallStreetBets took on Wall Street when they collectively bought shares of the struggling video game retailer GameStop.This movement started when it was discovered that approximately 140% of GameStop shares were sold short. With the collective buying power of the millions of subscribers to the WallStreetBets subreddit, they initiated a short squeeze. By driving the price higher, those who had short positions had to buy back the stock to cover their positions, again driving the price higher.In less than two weeks, the share price went from around $20 to over $460. Amongst the people on the wrong side of this trade were Melvin Capital, a Hedge Fund that started the year with over $12 billion under management. After frantically trying to cover their position, GameStop wiped out a staggering $4.5 billion of their assets and reported a 53% loss on its investments in January. At the height of the rally, and with WallStreetBets out for blood, Robinhood, the world's most popular retail trading platform ceased trading on a number of heavily shorted assets, most notably GameStop (GME).The company claimed they were not prepared for the frenzied trading and that they lacked the capital to continue operations. However, some have suggested that the company's decision to cease trading was down to influential Wall Streeters.To better understand what has been happening over the last few weeks, and the implications on the future, I am joined by Bill Barhydt, Hester Peirce, Jaime Rogozinski, Max Keiser, Nathaniel Whittemore & Preston Pysh.- - - - -Show notes and transcription: DEF078 - Show Notes- - - - -Timestamps:Coming soon…- - - - -The success of Defiance will be largely down to the support of you, the listener. Below are a number of ways you can help:- Subscribe to the show on your favourite app so you never miss an episode:iTunesSpotifyDeezerStitcherSoundCloudYouTubeTuneIn- Leave a review of the show on iTunes (5* really helps, if you think the show deserves it).- Share the show and episodes out with your friends and family on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.- Follow Defiance on social media:TwitterFacebookInstagramYouTube- Subscribe to the Defiance mailing list.- Donate Bitcoin here: bc1qd3anlc8lh0cl9ulqah03dmg3r2uxm5r657zr5pIf you have any questions then please email Defiance.- - - - -

Se te disessem a alguns anos atrás, que um grupo de usuários de uma rede social, iria alterar os rumos da maior bolsa de valores do mundo. Você acreditaria? Pois foi isso o que aconteceu na última semana, quando o Grupo WallStreetBets, simplesmente movimentou o maior mercado de ações do mundo.  O short squeeze da Gamestop, causou a alegria de muitos e a tristeza de outros tantos.  Entenda nesse epsódio quais os principais personagens e que lição podemos tirar de tudo isso.  O Criador - Jaime Rogozinski - que criou o grupo em 2012 Os Degenerados - O Grupo do Reddit "WallStreetBets" A Lenda - Keith Patrick Gill ou u/DeepFuckingValue no Reddit e seu canal "Roaring Kitty" no youtube A Vitima - Gamestop - Empresa com 5000 lojas e presença em 10 países Os Vilões - Melvin Capital, Robin Hood e os Hedge Funds --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/marcelolemes/support

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If you ever played a glitchy video game, you may have encountered a patch to make said game less glitchy. That is typically a good thing. recently Robin Hood (own by Citadel who also owns Melvin Capital) released a patch that made the stock "game" easier for the veteran players who win all the time and harder for the new players who realized how the stock "game" worked. If a game developer did that to their player base, you might guess that the developer would be heavily scrutinized; and you would be absolutely right! Join in on this fun adventure as we tackle what it means to be a stonk expert these days. Further Reading: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/29/gamestop-stocks-robinhood-reddit/ Hosts: Graham Jenkins and Joe Leonard. Guest: ©2020 Commoner Public Radio Network. Theme "Grow" composed and performed by Bad News Band. Theme: https://open.spotify.com/track/7B286IInS4X2LrAGj9NnjX?si=pKd_bGQkQcGjqweP6002xQ. Email: intheclearcpr@gmail.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0iXuBXE4EVZu1EWRCBzvKw Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/intheclearCPRN Twitter: https://twitter.com/intheclear4 Tumblr: https://intheclearcprn.tumblr.com/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/cpr-network2/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cpr-network2/support

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Greg and Anto bring in their pal Terry, a seasoned retail investor, to talk about what the heck is happening with GME Gamestop in the stock market right now. He brings us up to speed with the history of Gamestop, what happened with the hedge fund Melvin Capital, and how certain Redditors played a part in this all to form a global movement that puts the stock market on its heels.

TABLE OF CONTENT TALKING POINTS Episode 331/31/2021(Host Scene)Zazz - Welcome to Table of Content. The round table show where we discuss all the happenings around streaming, gaming and entertainment. I am Zazzaboo your host and the Editor in Chief of TableOC.com. We have two great streamers here tonight ready to drop their opinions on us about the latest but first returning from Covid Quarantine Jim Dandy himself….~Welcome StumpAlso now that we are on a new channel that is un affiliated you can support the podcast by subscribing to our patreon. There is special content there for all subscribers including My personal Vlog. You can subscribe for that same $5 like you would on Twitch or if you would like to there are several higher tier subscriptions to help fund the News sight and the podcast.As always we love your support no matter if it's monetary, hate mail or just keeping us company in chatIntro guests - Rogue and TyranizamStreaming NewsTwitch council member CohhCarnage pushing for major change to bansA major streamer is speaking out over TwitchesTwitch's handling of suspensions and bans.Form Dexerto -As a member of the Twitch Safety Advisory Council, streamer Ben ‘CohhCarnage' Cassell has explained one major change he wants to make following the confusing ban of World of Warcraft streamer Mohamed ‘Ziqo' Beshir.On January 19, Ziqo revealed that he would not be streaming for a few days due to a Twitch suspension, but was clearly a bit confused by what had happened, unaware of the reason for his ban.Shortly after, Ziqo revealed that he had learned the reason for his suspension: using hateful speech and slurs, deducing himself that he believed that they were accusing him of using a homophobic slur.While the WoW veteran didn't fully understand what he must have said or done to cause the suspension, he accepted it and his account was restored on January 26. after an appeal.Saying that Ziqo's ban reversal was “great to hear,” Cohh added that the issue should have been “fixed in minutes,” calling on Twitch to “come up with policies where people given false bans get front page time for the time they lost.”He followed up saying that one huge problem is Twitch not including account managers in the process. He tweeted: “If that account manager was given the clip, he could have shown it to Ziqo. Ziqo could have said, ‘No, I didn't say that. I said this.' Problem solved.”Of course, in his role with the Twitch advisory council, fans will be hoping this means more positive changes to how bans are handled, especially with situations such as Ziqo's that seem to confuse just about everyone.Rogue- Do you think anything will become of someone like Cohh speaking out about the lack of sensible reaction by twitch on bans?Twitch slammed for failing to moderate their own channel's chatEverytime Twitch seems to make steps in the right direction they turn right around and step in it. They are once again facing backlash over TOS and chatting on the platform..From Dexerto -As part of Twitch's celebration of its community, on January 23 it held a Participation Awards to commemorate the work of their streamers and the community.The stream focused on using Twitch chat as a direct medium between the hosts and viewers. But, as the event was running, some, including partnered streamers, criticized Twitch for ineffectively moderating the messages in chat.This wasn't the only debacle from the stream. It turns out that one of the awards was inadvertently handed out to a bot account, rather than a real person.It's been a turbulent few days for the platform, as users condemned their decision to ban a 15-year-old streamer with 90,000 followers because he had made his account when he was under 13. Meanwhile, other top streamers on the platform who also made their account when under 13 have gone unpunished.Tyranizam - How does this happen? A platform that is constantly blasted for how they handle others who have things happen like this.G4 returns today on YouTube and TwitchAhead of its return later this year, G4 will air a new series called B4G4 on YouTube and Twitch. It starts streaming today (Friday, January 29th). Among other content, the series will feature comedy sketches, game reviews and music parodies, with fans getting the chance to submit their own work to the show through the G4 Reddit community. It's also one of the ways those same fans can take part in G4's online search for hosting and writing talent.G4 provided an initial look at the show in a short clip it shared on its social media channels. “It's a bit of work in progress, but that's the point,” says G4 “CEO” Jerry XL (played by YouTube sketch comedian Gus Johnson) of B4G4. “Tell us what you hate. Tell us what you love. Tell us what you'd be willing to spend your discretionary income on.”The announcement comes one day after G4 confirmed both Attack of the Show! and X-Play will return when the network officially relaunches this summer. G4 first started teasing its return last summer but has so far said little about where you'll be able to watch all of its shows. With its ties to NBCUniversal, there's been some speculation its content could land on Peacock.Stump - I am stoked about this what do you want to see from a network dedicated to our industryTech/Gaming NewsXbox Game Pass subscribers hit 18 millionIn this day and age we are subscription to death. We have to consider which subscription streaming service has the best library for us and also which razer company has the smoothest shave. Microsoft however is separating itself from the pack when it comes to subscription services.From the vergeMicrosoft is continuing to attract people to its Xbox Game Pass service. The “Netflix for video games” service now has 18 million subscribers, up from the 15 million previously reported in September. Xbox Game Pass is a subscription service that offers access to a growing selection of more than 100 Xbox games for $9.99 per month.Microsoft has been pushing Xbox Game Pass for more than a year now, and it's clear the company is heavily invested in its future. Bungie's Destiny 2 title appeared on Xbox Game Pass late last year, and Control is also available on the service for both Xbox and PC.On an earnings call today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also revealed that Xbox Live has more than 100 million monthly active users. Nadella also said the launch of the Xbox Series X and S was the most successful in Microsoft's history, with “the most devices ever sold in a launch month.”There have also been a variety of promotions designed to entice consumers into Xbox Game Pass. Microsoft regularly offers the first month of the service for $1 and has been incentivizing Xbox Live Gold customers to switch over to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which includes the company's new xCloud game streaming feature.Rogue - How long until Xbox purchases or merges with someone like netflix or HULU?Sophia the Robot Creators Announce Plan to Mass-Produce Robots This YearWe have been heralding the rise of the machines for sometime here on TableOC. This would seem to be a major step in that front .From IGNSophia the Robot and three other models from Hanson Robotics will go into mass production this year and are expected to begin rolling out of factories in the first half of 2021.This news comes by way of a new report from Reuters after a tour through Hanson Robotics' Hong Kong factory conducted by Sophia the Robot, whom you might recognize as the viral robot from years ago that was granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia back in 2017.Hanson Robotics believes now to be a better time than ever to roll out these robots as they can help not only the healthcare sectors of the world, but the retail and airline industries as well.Reuters noted that according to the International Federation of Robots, worldwide sales of professional-service robots jumped up 32% to $11.2 billion from 2018 to 2019. Those numbers have likely risen during the current COVID-19 pandemic as robots are seen around the world helping in the healthcare sector and Hanson said he believes that in a world of COVID-19, more automation is needed to keep people safe.One of the robots Hanson Robotics is launching this year, Grace, has been created specifically for the healthcare sector.Tyranizam -  What sort of implications do you see coming with this sort of tech becoming mass produced?Timeline: GameStop's 1,600% surge in retail investor vs hedge fund battleShares of GameStop surged as much as 1,600% between Jan. 11 and Wednesday after an unprecedented stock market battle pitting amateur investors piling on the videogame retailer's shares against hedge funds scrambling to cover losing bets.The use of volatile call options, herd buying through social network Reddit, the involvement of Tesla's Elon Musk and a burst of copycat trades in an apparent speculative retail bubble have contributed to put low profile GameStop on the front page of financial news.The following are significant moments in the GameStop share price:Dec. 8, 2020: GameStop shares tank after company misses Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue as pandemic-led store closures and intense competition from digital-game sellers hit sales.Jan 11: GameStop appoints Chewy.com founder and two other e-commerce veterans to its board in a deal with investor Ryan Cohen's RC Ventures, as it doubles down on digital salesJan 12: Short interest at 70.9 mln shares, down from 71.2 mln on Jan 8, per S3 Partners. Notional value of short bets rose to $1.4 bln from $1.3 bln, reflecting the rising stock priceJan 13: GameStops shares rise 57%, followed by another 27% jump the next day to $39.90. Its median target price among analysts is only $12.50.Jan 19: Short seller Citron Research takes aim. Tweets about GameStop, saying buyers at these levels are “the suckers at this poker game” and stock “back to $20 fast.”Jan 20: Citron Research delays negative report, says it does not want to go live with its report on the stockJan 22: Shares rise another 50%.Jan 25: GameStop stock soars as much 144% then settles up 18% with retail traders storming in to buy more.Jan 26: Elon Musk tweets "Gamestonk!!", along with a link to Reddit's Wallstreetbets stock trading discussion group, where supporters refer to the Tesla CEO as "Papa Musk." hereJan 26: Shares surge 92.7%. Top securities regulator in Massachusetts reportedly says trading in GameStop suggests there is something “systemically wrong” with the options trading.Jan 27: Melvin Capital and Citron closes the majority of their GameStop position at a lossStump - Do we now officially live in a meme economy? This has to scare many big companies, not just wall street firms. Imagine a hostile takeover of a company by a bunch of neckbeards on reddit.Entertainment NewsFirst Trailer For Tim Allen And Richard Karn's New TV Show Is Basically Home Improvement Without The FamilyUGHHHHHH Tim Allen is back with his longtime cohort Al (Richard Karn and they are bringing us a brand new show that sounds like it will be a blast.From cinemablendFor fans of the '90s sitcom Home Improvement, 2021 is something of a banner year. Not only did Tim Allen deliver a baffling Last Man Standing crossover episode in which he portrayed both Tim Taylor and Mike Baxter, but the comedian also reteamed with former co-star Richard Karn for a brand new series with talented builders as its focus. First announced last year, History's Assembly Required released its first trailer, which feels like it could have been an ad for Home Improvement's in-show Tool Time.Both Tim Allen and Richard Karn serve as co-hosts for Assembly Required, and both are also executive produces behind the scenes. They'll be joined in hosting duties by DIY YouTube star April Wilkerson, who serves as the show's resident expert. We'll have to wait and see whether Wilkerson will become another foil for Allen's jokes, or if she'll join him in poking clever fun at Al...er, I mean Karn.The show will take place on the Set of Tool Time which Allen kept after the show wrapped.Assembly Required debuts on Tuesday, February 23, at 10:00 p.m. ET. on the history channel.Rogue - Was Home improvement a show that made the jump and were you even alive to remember it?Harry Potter TV Show Reportedly In Development For HBO MaxWhat isn't in the works at HBO. Last week we found out they were working on a second Game of thrones prequel  and now this.From the piece at screen rantA live-action Harry Potter show is reportedly in the works at HBO Max. Harry Potter became a bonafide phenomenon over the last few decades. The books, penned by J.K. Rowling, spawned eight films that directly adapted the novels. All together, the films grossed over $7 billion at the box office and have continued to be popular in syndication and at-home media.Like many established franchises, the possibilities are endless when it comes to a Harry Potter television series. The most obvious choice, and likely the one fans want the most, would be one that directly follows up the immensely popular films.A Harry Potter series would either have to follow the characters as they navigate their adult lives or it could explore the lives of their children, something Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a play and sequel, already began to do.Tyranizam - What do you want from a Harry Potter series?Stump - What's the next movie franchise TV spinoff? Use this to lead into bold predictions at the endBOLD PREDICTIONSPlug your stuff.Zazzaboo plug the site, Pod etcDon't forget to check out the patreon.Thanks and we will see you next week!★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This week's podcast saw an unexpected turn to economics, as Alex does her best to explain what is being lauded as the democratisation of finance, the ongoing battle between Reditters and the hedgefund giant, Melvin Capital. We've attached some links below for those of you who are still confused and need Trevor Noah pretending to be Margot Robbie to explain. Rhiannon has been reading the memoir of Jean-Dominique Bauby, written with the blinking of his eye, as he chronicles life with locked-in syndrome and we discuss the nuances of transcription. Alex has been reading Maggie O'Farrell tell her life story, beautifully and tangentially, through 17 brushes with death. It reminds us, just as the moribund awareness of death that Covid has brought to the world, of the importance of living life fully. Alex has also been reading Ann Patchett's The Dutch House and discusses how the injustices of fairy tales - of evil stepmothers and privilege ripped away from youth - still leave her seething with anger. Meanwhile, Rhiannon's book, What Red Was, provokes another kind of rage as it details the impact of rape on the life of a young woman and the ramifications of silence and speaking out. Finally, we discuss Meghan and Harry's baffling new podcast, featuring a delightful debut from their young son, Archie. Their podcast features snippets of celebrities detailing their lockdown lives and who doesn't want to know what Elton John and Brené Brown have been up to! Content Warning: rape and sexual assault. To avoid, skip from 34 to 44 minutes. We are an accessible podcast so find transcripts in our linktree in our instagram bio @thegrandthunk. Follow us on social media @thegrandthunk or email us - thegrandthunk@gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you! Subscribe, rate, review and tell all your friends. See below for a full list of what we discuss: Gamestop Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD3wtQOBE_A https://thedeepdive.ca/gamestop-the-gme-short-squeeze-explained/ https://www.ft.com/content/4f76d769-4460-450f-9373-1e54f7da6c19?shareType=nongift The Big Short The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby What Writers and Editors Do by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Paris Review I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell Intimations by Zadie Smith The Dutch House by Ann Patchett Matilda by Roald Dahl What Red Was by Rosie Price Archewell Audio, Harry and Meghan's Podcast The Grand Thunk, the podcast in which Alex Blanchard and Rhiannon Kearns discuss the books they've been reading, the films and TV shows they've been watching and the podcasts they've been listening to!

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Hello and welcome back everyone. After a short vacation I have returned to give my overview of everything that has transpired over the past week with the GME and AMC situation and Reddit taking down Melvin Capital and Citadel. No stock picks or anything like that, but I wanted to go into a little bit of what exactly happened over the past week, where we are now and what can we expect moving forward. Hope everyone enjoys, as what has happened over the past week will be in finance textbooks across universities in 5 years time. It is pretty cool we got to live through it, and I hope I did a good job breaking it down for people that don't fully understand what was going on. It can be tough when the news, your timeline of memes and various opinions are all giving contradicting information, yet everyone is talking about the same thing. As always let me know what you think Twitter: 10MinuteInvesting Reddit: u/10MinuteInvesting 10MinuteInvesting@gmail.com

EP35: GameStop GME WallStreetBets Robinhood, NY-22, Epstein, Bitcoin DOGE, Super Bowl LV Join hosts Shawn Hannon and Ben Hussong as they separate the latest news from the noise impacting New York State. NEWS: WallStreetBets takes on Melvin Capital, a hedge fund shorting GameStop. Market chaos ensues! GME, AMC, DOGE, Silver Apollo CEO Leon Black steps down over Jeffrey Epstein allegations NYS: NYS AG Letitia James investigation finds almost 13,000 nursing home deaths in NYS vs the DOH's number of 8500 Tenney strengthens lead in NY-22 Crypto: Bitcoin rollercoaster, DogeCoin is alive! DOGE NFL: Super Bowl LV Predictions ## About the Sports, Clicks & Politics Podcast SCAPP is a weekly podcast with a Livestream every Monday at 12pm eastern. Join hosts Shawn Hannon and Ben Hussong as they separate the latest news from the noise impacting New York State. The podcast has frequent guest interviews for additional perspectives in the worlds or sports, politics and beyond! Follow the show on social media Website: scappodcast.com Facebook: facebook.com/scappodcast Twitter: @SCAPPodcast Follow Shawn & Ben on Twitter Shawn: @hannon44 Ben: @benhussong --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/scapp/support

In this episode David and Cindy discuss GameStop's astronomical rise in their stock price due to the people on Reddit's Wall Street Bets forum colluding together to drive the stock price up and squeeze the short sellers namely, Melvin Capital. We will explain how short selling works, why you should be careful with this type of stock betting and what is the aftermath going to be.  In the Coronavirus montage David and Cindy discuss things that they have found in their home and why they appear in older homes such as razor blades in the walls, and single toilets in basements without a bathroom.  Lastly, they discuss amazing treasures that people have found in their homes and sitting in the ground. Razor Blades in the Walls  https://www.rd.com/article/if-you-live-in-an-old-house-there-could-be-razor-blades-in-your-walls/ Pittsburgh Potty   https://www.familyhandyman.com/article/heres-why-old-houses-have-a-random-toilet-in-the-basement/ https://www.instagram.com/somm.podcast/ https://www.somethingonmymind.net/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChec5qcZBcGkIhUU3belNDw https://www.tiktok.com/@somm.podcast?lang=en https://www.facebook.com/somm.podcast https://twitter.com/Somm_podcast

Right now, the whole world is focused on one company: GameStop. It makes sense why it's grabbed the world's attention. Everyone's captivated when they see people on the Internet become millionaires overnight, somehow beating some of the world's biggest hedge funds. It's better than watching Luke Skywalker take down the Death Star. We haven't seen this type of win for an underdog since a 12-year old Bow Wow pump-faked Vince Carter to beat the Toronto Raptors. GameStop has had a wild week and the story's not over yet. GameStop stock is still trading at a relatively high price and on forums like r/wallstreetbets, retail investors are encouraging each other to “hold the line” to beat the hedge funds at their own game. Like all great wars of history, we need to take some time and understand the roots of the conflict to really understand what's going on. So let's talk about why GameStop is going to the moon and why Robinhood has taken some huge collateral damage. The trends that led up to this Nothing like the current situation with GameStop has ever happened. Judging by what happened this week, hedge funds seemed to think the scenario was as likely as your friend pulling all five pieces of Exodia on the first turn when you're playing Yu-Gi-Oh with him. It's important, however, to realize the trends that led to this war have been going on for a long time and only came together just this week. The democratization of finance For decades, the stock market was mostly for the old and the already rich. It's estimated that 84% of stocks are owned by the wealthiest 10% of Americans. There was a reason why it was hard for the middle and lower classes to get started. If you wanted to buy stocks forty years ago, you'd have to go into a physical brokerage and make trades through a broker, who'd make commissions off of every trade. In addition, it was pretty hard for the average person off the street to understand how to make informed investments and read a company balance sheet. Those days are done. Nowadays, apps like Robinhood make it easy for any user to get started with zero upfront commissions and a user-friendly interface that anyone could understand. These new platforms have helped to cut the investment gap between whites and African-Americans almost in half. It's also easier than ever for stock traders to share tips and tricks with each other instead of needing to rely on a financial advisor.  Forums like Reddit's r/wallstreetbets have millions of users and posters can break down their reasons for buying and selling different stocks. Anyone find the information they need to make informed investment decisions. A backlash against the elites  Anger at the elites has been building up steadily since the 2008 recession. When the economy crashed, the banks got a bailout from the federal government. Meanwhile, the millions of Americans who were unemployed didn't find anyone coming to save them. Feelings of anger and resentment at the upper classes were shared by both the right and the left. Donald Trump got elected president by promising to “drain the swamp” and saying that he wasn't a “typical politician”. On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders got more votes and more attention in the presidential primaries than anyone thought a self-declared socialist could ever achieve by promising to fight income inequality. COVID-19 only amplified the anger people were already feeling. The pandemic has been terrible for poor Americans. The unemployment rate has been as high as 15% and it's estimated that 12 million Americans are on average $5850 behind on paying rent. On the other hand, the rich are doing just fine. The capital markets have gotten trillions of dollars from the Federal Reserve, which means the stock market has been hitting new highs even as millions of Americans remain unemployed. Meanwhile, normal people have gotten just $1800 in stimulus checks over the past 10 months. Sometimes when millions of working-class people are angry enough, they'll overthrow the government and start sending elites to the gulag like in Russia in 1917. We're not quite at that stage yet. Instead, retail investors took up the banner of class warfare on Reddit and Robinhood. u/deepfuckingvalue: The modern-day messiahIt's hard to believe that this whole thing started from a random post on Reddit. But that's exactly how it happened. About a year and a half ago, a Redditor named u/deepfuckingvalue (We'll call him DFV for short) posted a screenshot that showed that he dropped $100,000 on GameStop calls.   It was an incredibly risky trade for a few reasons. Retailers in general are dying because of eCommerce companies like Amazon. The video game industry specifically is starting to trend towards digital downloads. Most people believed that GameStop was headed for bankruptcy. Just like most other prophets who end up starting a movement, DFV was not well-received by the public at first. Most of the comments essentially called him a clown for betting so much on a struggling company. For some reason, DFV was unfazed by the initial negative reaction. Wiping the spit of the Pharisees off his face, he kept posting his updates about his GameStop calls.Eventually, DFV's posts started getting more attention. GameStop's stock price went through some wild swings during this time. At one point, the value of DFV's calls went up to $2 million. For some reason, he didn't sell. Redditors admired him for his persistence. The more DFV posted, the more Redditors realized that there was actually a solid case to be optimistic on GameStop stock. Former Chewy CEO Ryan Cohen bought a ton of GameStop shares and pushed the company to close down unprofitable stores and start making moves to win in eCommerce. Plus, a few hedge funds like Melvin Capital had aggressively bet on the failure of the company. All the right conditions for a short squeeze had been set up. Short squeezes explained Now is a pretty good time to explain why people short companies. It works like this: If you're confident that a stock is going to go down, you can make money by shorting it. Let's say there's a stock that's worth $5 that you're sure is going to go down to $1. What can you do is borrow 500 shares in this company and then immediately sell them off. If you're right and the price does go down to $1, you can then buy back those 500 shares and return them. You should come out with $2400 in profit.  Of course, shorting comes with a huge risk. If the price of the stock goes up, you're going to lose money because you'll need to buy it back at a higher price. Big increases in stock prices mean huge losses. If you short a stock that's originally $5 and then it goes up to $700 - you're pretty much fucked.If a lot of people have a short position on a stock and they see the price increasing rapidly, they might try to quickly buy back shares so they can return them and limit their losses. If many short-sellers do this at the same time, they'll push up the stock price even higher. That's a short squeeze. Short squeezes are not new - they've been going on for centuries. Way back in 1862, Cornelius Vanderbilt cornered the market on Harlem Railroad stock and engineered a short squeeze. What's different is that now rich dudes like Vanderbilt aren't the only people who can do this. While an individual trader might not have the type of money that Vanderbilt had, they can do something he couldn't: Get on forums like r/Wallstreetbets and encourage other traders to make the same bet. GME to the moon Earlier this week, Redditors started buying up more and more GameStop stock, which started the short squeeze and started pushing up the price to insane levels. Then, they started to get some help. Famous billionaires like former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya and Tesla CEO Elon Musk both encouraged the short squeeze on Twitter. GameStop's stock price climbed higher and higher. Redditors who bought GameStop early were putting up unreal returns. DFV posted an update a few days ago on Reddit. His original position is now valued at $43 million. He's now pretty much the messiah on r/Wallstreetbets.  But at this point, buying GameStop stock was more than just about making money. It was about fighting a war against the same hedge funds who made all the rules and got all the money while regular people suffered. Retail investors who were betting on GameStop wanted to see the big institutions lose, and that mattered more than just making gains. It's important to remember that this narrative of retail investors vs. hedge funds isn't entirely accurate. There are big institutions on both sides of this trade. One of GameStop's biggest owners is BlackRock, one of the world's biggest hedge funds. Still, it's undeniable that retail investors did real damage to the hedge funds that were short on GameStop.Seeing what they did with GameStop, r/wallstreetbets decided to ride the hot streak. They found other stocks that had huge short positions like AMC and Blackberry and tried playing the same game. Very quickly, these companies' stock prices started increasing too. But on Thursday, something happened that changed everything. The suits strike back On Thursday, Robinhood and other trading platforms restricted the trading for 13 different stocks, including GameStop and AMC. Users could no longer buy these stocks - they could only sell them. That same day, GameStop's stock price tanked. Since Robinhood at first didn't make any kind of public statement on why they decided to do this, people speculated that Robinhood was doing a favor for its friends at the hedge funds. To understand why people drew this conclusion, it's important to understand how Robinhood makes money. When you buy a stock on Robinhood, the app doesn't actually execute the trade. It sells the order to a hedge fund that acts as a middleman, executes the orders, and takes a few pennies off of every trade. Over time, the hedge funds make pretty good money off this arrangement. A lawsuit filed by the SEC against Robinhood estimated that this practice cost users $34 million. A hedge fund called Citadel happens to be Robinhood's biggest customer when it comes to buying these orders. Citadel also put billions of dollars into Melvin Capital, GameStop's biggest short seller. If you make the obvious connection here, it's easy to see why Robinhood users were pissed off. Is there actually a conspiracy between Robinhood and Citadel? Robinhood and the other brokerages that restricted trading were met with pretty much universal condemnation for their actions. On Twitter, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called what the app did “unacceptable”. For maybe the first time ever, Ted Cruz agreed with her. Eventually, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev had to respond to the beating his app was taking online. He went on every news network that same night to say that there was no collusion and that Robinhood was just trying its best to comply with regulatory requirements. We don't have any proof that Citadel or any other hedge fund made a direct request to Robinhood to stop allowing traders to buy GameStop. Still, if Robinhood is telling the truth, they should've told users about what they were doing from the start. Plus, they handled it in the worst way possible. If the app restricted trading on the stock entirely instead of only allowing the option to sell, it wouldn't have looked like Robinhood was artificially trying to bring the stock price down. I'm not going to make any accusations here, but Robinhood unquestionably fucked up. At best, the app made a really stupid move without properly explaining why it was happening. At worst, it colluded with hedge funds to screw over its own users. The situation is even worse when you remember that Robinhood has been the preferred platform for young investors and the sorts of people who typically spend time on r/wallstreetbets. In the past, I've defended Robinhood by talking about how it's brought a whole new generation of investors into the market. But now, those same people are incredibly pissed off. The house always wins People are expecting GameStop stock to fall back to reasonable levels, but it hasn't happened yet. While I'm writing this, GameStop stock is still at $325. It's been estimated that so far, short-sellers have lost $19 billion. I have no idea how long this is going to go on. What I do know is that the 24 hours when brokers restricted trading of stocks like GameStop gave hedge funds time to close out their original short positions. I want to believe that a bunch of dudes on r/wallstreetbets can win big against giant hedge funds, but all the odds are against them. It looks like Wall Street is taking steps to ensure that a short squeeze will never be coordinated on forums like Reddit again. NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman said that in the future, the exchange could restrict trading on stocks that have excessive mentions on social media. Friedman said that the purpose of this move was to avoid “market manipulation”. This is complete bullshit.  In this case, posters on r/wallstreetbets didn't spread false or misleading information - they just told other Redditors about the moves they were making. A few hedge funds took massive amounts of risk by shorting GameStop stock to an excessive degree - r/wallstreetbets noticed and took advantage. I don't see how that isn't just the free market at work. Meanwhile, hedge funds routinely get away with giving false information to the press just to make a quick buck. If you don't believe me, check out this video of Jim Cramer breaking down common manipulation tricks by hedge funds. The fact that the NASDAQ even feels the need to get involved only in this case proves r/wallstreetbets's point - the game is rigged. In conclusion I've heard a few people say the stock is going to come crashing down and retail investors are going to be hit the hardest. I'm not sure I agree. The long-term impact of this situation might be a big positive for retail investors. While Robinhood might have lost the trust of its customers, we can probably all still agree that its mission to “democratize finance” is a good thing. That's happening more than ever this week. Some of my friends bought stocks for the very first time during the GameStop War. None of them are betting their entire life savings, but many of them are just now starting to pay close attention to the market. r/wallstreetbets even had to go private for a few hours because they were having trouble dealing with all the new members. I'm really not joking when I say that u/deepfuckingvalue is a messiah. The GameStop War probably will end up bringing hundreds of thousands of new investors into the market, and all it took was a few hedge funds losing a few billion. Anyway, if you're looking to know more about business and tech, sign up for our weekly newsletter. We send one email on topics like this every Sunday. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sundayspecial.substack.com

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Nobody saw it coming, but Gamestonks has ruled the netsphere in mainstream news. Should you get hyped and bite into Gamestop's Stocks and hope for a get-rich-quick scheme, or should you not get yourself involved in the chaos?

It's been one of the wildest weeks in the markets EVER! Reddit, Melvin Capital, short squeezes, doling the line, diamond hands, GameStop and AMC to the moon! Even Dogecoin got in on the action. So much to talk about so much to look forward to this week! Tune in for our latest booze, Booms & Busts episode...Oh yeah and we drink beer while doing it of course to give our tasting notes and ratings!

This newsletter is really a public policy thought-letter. While excellent newsletters on specific themes within public policy already exist, this thought-letter is about frameworks, mental models, and key ideas that will hopefully help you think about any public policy problem in imaginative ways. It seeks to answer just one question: how do I think about a particular public policy problem/solution?PS: If you enjoy listening instead of reading, we have this edition available as an audio narration on all podcasting platforms courtesy the good folks at Ad-Auris. If you have any feedback, please send it to us.Global Policy Watch: Capital Markets (Enter, Stage Right) - Radically Networked Societies - RSJIt is difficult to write a newsletter this weekend and not talk about GameStop. Even for a public policy newsletter. But I like to believe if you hold your gaze long enough at any news going around, you will find a public policy problem. This becomes especially true if you run a twice-a-week public policy newsletter. Everything starts looking like a public policy issue soon enough.Anyway, a lot of what’s happened with the GameStop stock over the last couple of weeks is part of the broader gusts of change that’s buffeting society and culture since the global financial crisis (GFC). In that sense, it is useful to try and look beyond the story to understand the GameStop phenomenon. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Let’s do a quick recap of the story.GameStop is a brick-and-mortar video game seller. A fairly routine presence across large malls across America, GameStop was meandering its way into irrelevance over the last many years. After all, who goes to the mall to buy video games anymore? And then the pandemic arrived to compound its woes. Its days seem numbered. Soon it would join the likes of Blockbuster, JC Penney and scores of other businesses that couldn’t reinvent themselves for the digital age. That was the consensus on Wall Street. The Short SqueezeBut the Street is a strange place. A business with no prospects is also an opportunity to make money. By shorting its stock. You borrow a few shares of the company from someone (usually a broker) and you sell them in the market. Since you are borrowing the shares you pay a small charge for it. Plus the broker wants a bit of insurance in case things go bad. So you keep some money in an account that the lender can access in case things go south. Since you believe the stock price will go down, you wait for it to happen. When it does, you buy the same number of shares at the lower price and return them back to the broker. You pocket the difference. This is how it goes for any ordinary investor. If you happen to be a star fund manager of a hedge fund, you make it known to the world you are shorting the stock. You have a platform to voice your views and you send out a signal the stock will tank. Often this turns out to be a self-fulfilling prophesy. The stock does go down on your word and momentum does the rest. You make a tidy profit for your clients and a fat commission for yourself. Of course, plans go awry too. The stock goes up contrary to your bet. You think this is temporary so you wait. But the broker is nervous and wants some assurance. So you top up the account where you had put some money in case things went bad. If the stock keeps rising, you have to keep topping this up. Since your loss can be unlimited (the stock can keep rising), you feel hemmed in as the stock rises. You feel squeezed. So you decide you want to call this bet off. The only way to do this is to buy the stock at an elevated price. You do that. But remember you are not the only one who had shorted this stock. As the likes of you buy the stock at the elevated price, the price goes up further. And other short sellers feel the squeeze. This is called short squeeze. It can wipe you out. That’s that. Life is too short to know any more about short selling.And The Gamma SqueezeOn the other hand, there are people who bet the stock price will go up. That’s usual. The riskier bet is buying a call option on a stock. Here you don’t buy the stock. Instead, you buy an option that the stock will go above a certain price. This is a small bet. You lose all money if the stock doesn’t reach there. But if it does, you make a lot of money on a small bet. Since this is a bet, there’s always the other party (market maker) that’s sold you the bet. They sell many such bets. And to hedge their bets they go out and buy a small number of the underlying stock. In case the stock price does go above the bet price, they will atleast recover some of their losses if they own that stock. For simplicity let’s call the rate of buying the stock to hedge the bet as ‘delta’. You can see where this is heading. If the stock keeps going up and more people buy call options, you will have the market makers buy more of that stock. This in turn drives the price further up. That is the delta keeps becoming faster. This rate of change of delta is called gamma. It is like acceleration. And this kind of squeeze in favour of stock going up is called the gamma squeeze.Life is complicated enough already to know any more about Greek letters in stock markets. Unstoppable GameStop Events conspired in mysterious ways to bring both the short squeeze and the gamma squeeze to the GameStop stock overt the past few weeks.There’s a Reddit forum (r/WallStreetBets) that has a mix of investors - small-time investors with deep knowledge of the markets (very few), bored young men (mostly men) who trade in markets for a lark (few more), thrill-seekers and degenerates who trade by turning economic logic on its head (many more) and gullible new investors who are drawn into this in the hope of getting tips to make a quick buck (the largest number). The forum members see themselves as Davids taking on the Wall Street establishment (Goliath). Fun fact: only 14 per cent of Americans directly invest in individual stocks and 3 out of 4 of them belong to the top 20 per cent of American households by income. Calling themselves the ‘little guys’ is a bit rich. Sometime last summer a few members of the forum started making a case for GameStop as a stock that’s undervalued. The stock was trading at about $4 then. There was no rationale. It was pure optimism backed by hopes of a turnaround in the business. But that’s how even the best equity analysts often make a case for a stock. Or a VC fund values a start-up. The stock caught fancy of a few members in the forum and rallied a bit. In September, Ryan Cohen, an entrepreneur who sold his online pet store Chewey for $3.5 Bn a few years back, bought about 12 per cent of GameStop at $8.4 per share. Cohen believed he could turn GameStop into an online success. This was the validation the WallStreetBets members were looking for. The stock doubled in three months soon after.In January this year, things got weirder. GameStop was one of the most shorted stocks in the market (the total shorts were more than the available outstanding shares). As it rallied up, some of the prominent short sellers started talking down the stock. Particularly, two firms - Melvin Capital and Citron Research - called out the insanity around the stock. Now a word about short sellers, hedge funds and other established fund houses on Wall Street. For years since the GFC, there’s been a wave of simmering anger against them from the retail investors. Deservedly. These firms have done it all - cartelisation, manipulation of stocks leading to fake momentum and selling toxic products to ordinary investors. The calling out of GameStop rally by them triggered something extraordinary.The WallStreetBets forum decided to apply the short squeeze on the short-sellers. It was the mother of all squeezes. Meanwhile, GameStop brought Cohen and his two buddies on to their Board. Momentum was on. Gamma squeeze was in. The stock went berserk. From $20 to $320 over two weeks with wild fluctuations. Over 20 Bn shares were being traded daily making it the most traded stock in the world. Nothing had changed in its underlying business. In fact, the numbers were looking worse. But this wasn’t about GameStop anymore. In these two weeks, the whole thing has turned into a movement. It is no longer about making money. It is about making a statement. Socking it in the face of the establishment. There’s no logic anymore. It is a cult. Citron and Melvin have closed their positions and made extraordinary losses. These wins have given more life to the movement. Shorted stocks of companies that can hardly have a future have quadrupled. These include names like AMC, Blackberry (remember) and Nokia. The whole thing is nuts.The bar for absurdity in Wall Street lore is high. Short squeezes have a long history. The original baron, Cornelius Vanderbilt, once short squeezed the life out of NYC Council members who were betting against him. The railroad empire he built was the result of that. George Soros took a $10 Bn short position on the British Pound and almost broke the Bank of England in 1992. And in the early days of the pandemic last year, the crude oil price went below zero. There’s something about the GameStop story that tops them all. There was a rational economic explanation to the earlier events however bizarre they appeared. This one goes beyond economics.Markets In The CrosshairsFour trends now deeply embedded in our culture and politics seem to have marked their arrival in the markets with this story. Radically Networked Societies (RNS) meet Capital Markets: Nitin Pai and Pranay define a radically networked society as a web of hyper-connected individuals, possessing an identity (imagined or real), and motivated by a common immediate cause. The emergence of RNS aided by cellphones, cheap data connectivity and social media platforms is a phenomenon for the hierarchical state to contend. The immediate cause that motivates an RNS could be irrational but before the state or the established institutions can even put their shoes on, the RNS might have gone around the world twice with their message. This is what fuelled the bizarre stories emerging from the suicide of a Bollywood star during the pandemic or with the rise of the QAnon movement in America. Well, RNS is now in the markets. The WallStreetBets is a classic case of RNS. A bunch of hyperconnected, mostly anonymous investors who view themselves as Wall Street outsiders and whose immediate cause is to take down short sellers and hedge fund managers. That their chosen targets are a greedy, egoistic bunch divorced from reality has made their job easier. The story sells itself - the long due revenge of the ordinary investor. Knocking the experts off their pedestal: The experts are all sold out. They have an agenda and they won’t tell you the truth. That’s the message that’s mainstream now in politics and culture. This is what drives the anti-vaxxers, climate science deniers, trade protectionists and other conspiracy theories going around. Now add the Wall Street experts to this list. If a research analyst says a stock has no future, bet against her. Do the irrational thing and if it pays off for even a day, you have been proved right. The crowd is right: What are people like you buying, watching, eating or wearing? So many people can’t be wrong. If I can watch and enjoy something based on what others are watching, I can buy a stock the same way. Zero brokerage platforms like Robinhood and Public have built their business models around this. Gamify the stock markets. Make it addictive. The millennials seeking thrill sitting at home during the pandemic have a new destination. Buy stocks, buy options and have fun. Let them buy high, sell low and take a selfie while doing so. You earn street cred doing this within your community. Who cares about the losses? YOLO.It is personal: Hyper-personalisation, the market of one, call it by any name. You are now invested deeply in your belief and your platform. It is your identity. The echo chamber you inhabit keeps reinforcing this belief. After a while, even the platform has no control over you as Twitter and Facebook have seen over the years. And Robinhood discovered to its dismay last week. They will take you down too. Because it is all personal. You can’t just let Citron Research or Melvin Capital have a view about GameStop that’s contrary to yours. They have to be taken down. The GameStop phenomenon is just the beginning. It is like the Arab Spring of 2011 engineered on Twitter. Today it seems like a moment when the little guys took on the big, brutish establishment and won. This victory, like that of the Arab Spring, will be pyrrhic. The genie that escaped from that movement has been hard to put back into the bottle. The markets will now have to contend with the genie. It is out. For those like us who battle to protect the fast receding middle ground everywhere, this is a new front. Anything that elicits support from both Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ted Cruz must give the classical liberal a pause. That moment for Capital Markets is here. A Framework a Week: Three Functions of the StateTools for thinking public policy- Pranay KotasthanePublic Finance in Theory and Practice (1973) by Musgrave and Musgrave has an elegant classification of budgetary functions. Since you’ll be bombarded with the news about the union budget over the next few days, this classification would be of some use. From a public finance perspective, the three main functions of the State are allocation, distribution, and stabilisation. Allocation of social goods needs to be done primarily by the State because the market is likely to under provide such goods. Consider a private company willing to install street lights in your area for a fee that will be collected from all residents. Residents are likely to underpay because the benefits of good lighting will accrue to strangers beside themselves. Most people would prefer freeriding, the result being unlit streets. Here’s where the state comes in to allocate such social goods and imposing mandatory taxation, it tries to prevent freeriding. Distribution of income or wealth is another important and perhaps the most controversial function of the State. If the income distribution is not in line with what the society perceives as being “fair”, the State tries to alter the distribution pattern. For example, it is now widely accepted that poverty and food insecurity are undesirable in the Indian society and hence there is broad support across the political spectrum for some subsidies to the poor.Further, there are three fiscal instruments for redistribution:a tax-transfer scheme, combining progressive taxation of high-income with a subsidy to low-income households. example: tax money used for a direct benefit transfer for low-income families.progressive taxes used to finance public services, especially those such as public housing, which particularly benefit low-income households. a combination of taxes on goods purchased largely by high-income consumers with subsidies to other goods which are used chiefly by low-income consumers. example: GST rate of zero for grains and salt but tenwty-eight percent for cars.All three instruments of distribution distort markets and hence need to be used in moderation. In a previous edition, we have written why a tax-transfer scheme is better than loading a tax-system with multiple objectives. Finally, macroeconomic stabilisation seeks to achieve desirable levels of macroeconomic indicators such as inflation and unemployment since the market-determined values might not be optimal. Increase in the budget for the employment guarantee scheme (MGNREGS) due to COVID-19 is an example of budgetary policy being used to stabilise the unemployment situation. Stabilisation can happen through these two instruments: Monetary instruments such as interest rates, discount rates, and open market operations, orFiscal instruments such as raising public expenditures on infrastructure.Often, a budgetary policy designed for one of these functions can cause problems in the other. For example, a government trying to stabilise inflation by banning exports of commodities can affect the distribution of incomes of producers. This is the precise predicament of export bans on onions. Hence the grand challenge is to design policies that minimise such conflicts. Humour: Green shootsThe Union budget will be presented tomorrow and we bet you’ll hear the phrase ‘economy green shoots’ at least once. Many growth rate-based narratives around the economic recovery will compete with each other. So, here’s a pic in anticipation of all that — green shoots on a money plant.HomeWorkReading and listening recommendations on public policy matters[Audio] Amit Varma with Pranay on Radically Networked Societies in The Seen And The Unseen[Article] Kevin Roose’s The Shift column in The New York Times: The GameStop Reckoning Was a Long Time Coming[Article] Sarthak and Pranay have an article in Deccan Herald on an underrated budget document. Get on the email list at publicpolicy.substack.com

It turns out that Michael Jordan has a very direct connection to the massive financial losses incurred to hedge fund Melvin Capital as a result of the "Reddit Rebellion." When Reddit investors took to their Robinhood apps to engage in a "short squeeze" against fund manager Melvin Capital, this caused significant financial damage to Gabe Plotkin, owner of Melvin Capital, who also happens to have just become a major business partner of Jordan's, buying a massive stake in the Charlotte Hornets. While Michael Jordan's net worth remains high, the financially damage to a major business partner undermines his ability to sell more of the Hornets to Plotkin and also adds to the $300 million in losses he incurred after a pandemic-crippled NBA season.

Flash back: early 2000's, Zuma Dogg is the underground Jamie Kennedy, a much better rapper than Eminem, and blowing up city hall events, Fox News, and the streets with LA's biggest celebrities. We get an in-depth look at what he's up to now, and take a deep dive into the political unrest of an over bloated California government and how it relates to today's politics, music, movies and meme culture. Flash forward: 2021, the current socio-economic crisis has allowed the stock market and mainstream players to see unchecked growth over the last year while joe blow waits around for the gov to give them 600 dollars maybe. Reddit's r/WallStreetBets comes to the rescue to stick it to the man and let the underclass finally get a foothold in the financial markets. Citadel, Robinhood, and Melvin Capital fight over the future of investment, while Ted Cruz and AOC come to the rescue.... or do they? Special guest Kunal Desai from Suject Matter Pros comes to school us on all things financial and political regarding the situation. Let's talk stocks, banks, finances, and raise our power levels. Follow: Zuma Dogg - https://zumashow.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_oLBHzhkR0LZvFQZk9-sug https://soundcloud.com/zumadogg https://open.spotify.com/artist/7lSvYVHAh8XMoDe5h0n2Oy Kunal Desai - https://subjectmatterpros.com/ The Cave of Time Dlive: https://dlive.tv/cave_time Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/cave_time YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSLMTube Twitter: https://twitter.com/cave_time Odysee/LBRY: https://odysee.com/@cave_time Any podcast platform: search "The Cave of Time" This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

Laura Sogar and Mae Planert give a complete dumbed down breakdown of the drama with Gamestop. We go through all of the crazy market details so that you can also wrap your brain around this evolving story.  We cover hedge funds, shorting, Melvin Capital, Point72, Citadel, GameStop, AMC, DeepFuckingValue, WallStreetBets, short squeeze, Call Options, Ryan Cohen, AMC, RobinHood and market makers….. but we make it funny? Bonus episodes and content every week: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/risquebusinessnews ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

This is a shorter episode than normal, I've been preparing a mutlipart episode for the last several weeks, so here's a something to tide you over until then!   In this episode I take a look at the interesting situation evolving around the GME (GameStop) stock and the role of internet communities like /r/wallstreetbets and major Hedge Funds like Melvin Capital and Citadel. Small investors are driving a surge in GME share value, hitting many bourgeoisie investor groups right where it hurts, but is the story as simple as that? Some guy did save his dog though, which is a win in my books either way. CALL OUT FOR GUESTS - Contact me if you know someone or yourself want to be a guest on the Pod. Social Media: Twitter - @thispodispropa Instagram - @thispodispropaganda Youtube - This Podcast is Propaganda  Email - thispodcastispropaganda@gmail.com Libsyn Page -www.thispodispropaganda.libsyn.com   Want to Support the Podcast? You can visit the Pod's Patreon Page: Patreon Link - https://www.patreon.com/thispodispropaganda Visit the Official Merch Shop: Merch Link - https://teespring.com/stores/this-pod-is-propaganda-shop Show Notes: Music From - The Coup - 5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO https://open.spotify.com/track/2zO4tORsvzObeP7B8A8bIB?autoplay=true    

In this episode, Anna Baydakova, Tanzeel Akhtar and Danny Nelson discuss what the GameStop stock market chaos can teach crypto, why the Bank of International Settlements is pitching central bank digital currencies (CBDC) instead of crypto, and the privacy concerns around China's digital yuan.The big story for the week involves the Reddit-based trading community called WallStreetBets that has been causing equities to behave like cryptocurrencies – very volatile. WallStreetBets have wreaked chaos in traditional markets after pumping GameStop stock up by nearly 900% in five days to around $380. Hedge fund Melvin Capital Management suffered heavy losses by betting against video game retailer GameStop. Does crypto fix this?The digital yuan was front-and-center in yesterday's CBDC survey by the BIS, better known as the bank for central banks. Researchers there said 20% of the global population will likely be using general purpose digital fiat in the next three years. What they didn't say was the identity of the country with 18% of the global population…. China!In the meantime, security researchers started paying attention to potential risks of the digital yuan for the users outside of China. The Center for New American Security issued a report on how the Chinese Communist Party might get access to the financial data of people worldwide including, potentially, Americans who will be using the Chinese system in the future. Would you use something like that, and do you care about privacy of your transactions?Stories mentioned in this episode:CoinDesk: GameStop Investing Craze ‘Proof of Concept' for Bitcoin Success, Says Scaramucci CoinDesk: GameStop-Style Revolts Spread, Drawing Attention of White House, Nasdaq; TD Ameritrade Restricts Trading Reddit: An Open Letter to Melvin Capital, CNBC, Boomers, and WSB CoinDesk: BIS Chief Blasts Bitcoin's Viability, Prompting Blowback From Advocates BIS Plans Platform for Testing Central Bank Digital Currencies in Cross-Border Payments https://www.coindesk.com/bis-plans-platform-for-testing-central-bank-digital-currencies-in-cross-border-paymentsCoinDesk: Geopolitics at Stake in US Response to China's Digital Yuan: Report Center for New American Security: China's Digital Currency. Adding Financial Data to Digital Authoritarianism CoinDesk: WEF Davos: Bank of England Governor Insists Digital Payments (but Not Crypto) Are Sticking Around CoinDesk: WEF Davos: Silver Lake Co-Founder Tells Davos Cash Is Used Far More in Crime Than Bitcoin Colombia, Estonia Upload the Bitcoin White Paper to Their Governmental Websites https://www.coindesk.com/colombia-estonia-bitcoin-whitepaper Did you enjoy the show? We would love to hear what you think. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or your preferred service and talk to us directly via email at borderless@coindesk.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Social media has been abuzz about Redditors on a forum called “WallStreetBets”, banding together and buying up stock in a gaming merchandise retailer called GameStop. They are orchestrating a “short squeeze” against hedge funds that had taken a short position on the stock. Melvin Capital, one of the prime targets, lost over 30% of it's AUM and required an emergency infusion of $2.75 billion from fellow hedge funds Citadel and Point72. This is being seen as a triumph of the retail investors against institutions that purport to manipulate markets at the cost of smaller investors. To give us an insider's perspective on what is happening, we are joined by experienced traders, Rajiv and Dhiraj (anon), who speak about the significance of these events while also explaining concepts related to short selling, how it is different in India, what retail investors should beware of, and much more. This is a must listen episode for those interested in diving deeper on recent events and developing an understanding of markets and finance. The Bharatvaarta podcast is available on YouTube, Apple, Google, Spotify, Breaker, Stitcher, and other popular platforms. If you like this episode, then please rate, subscribe and share! For more information, do check out www.bharatvaarta.in.

Financial markets have been thrown into turmoil over the last week by retail investors using social media chat groups such as the Reddit forum Wall Street Bets and low-cost investment platforms to drive up shares in GameStop, a US video game retailer.  In what is called a “short squeeze”, the share buyers are putting intense pressure on hedge funds such as Melvin Capital and other institutional investors, who bet that these equities would fall. GameStop is a struggling bricks-and-mortar video game retailer in a world that is rapidly moving online. The stock had been languishing for six years, and many hedge funds were betting on a terminal decline. This weeks Podcast explains what is going on in the GameStop short squeeze, whether any laws are being broken, and how things are likely to work out with this trade.Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/PatrickBoyleOnFinancePatrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor:  https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Derivatives For The Trading Floor:  https://amzn.to/3cjsyPFCorporate Finance:  https://amzn.to/3fn3rvC Visit our website: www.onfinance.orgFollow Patrick on Twitter Here: https://twitter.com/PatrickEBoyleSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/PatrickBoyleOnFinance)

Social media has been abuzz about Redditors on a forum called “WallStreetBets”, banding together and buying up stock in a gaming merchandise retailer called GameStop. They are orchestrating a “short squeeze” against hedge funds that had taken a short position on the stock. Melvin Capital, one of the prime targets, lost over 30% of it's AUM and required an emergency infusion of $2.75 billion from fellow hedge funds Citadel and Point72. This is being seen as a triumph of the retail investors against institutions that purport to manipulate markets at the cost of smaller investors. To give us an insider's perspective on what is happening, we are joined by experienced traders, Rajiv and Dhiraj (anon), who speak about the significance of these events while also explaining concepts related to short selling, how it is different in India, what retail investors should beware of, and much more. This is a must listen episode for those interested in diving deeper on recent events and developing an understanding of markets and finance. The Bharatvaarta podcast is available on YouTube, Apple, Google, Spotify, Breaker, Stitcher, and other popular platforms. If you like this episode, then please rate, subscribe and share! For more information, do check out www.bharatvaarta.in.

You ever heard that phrase check your ego at the door? Arrogance can and will destroy your business one way or the other, and I'm about to prove it to you.This is another marketing with Tim podcast. My name is Tim Burt. If you have kids, you’ve probably experienced this phenomenon. This stock market tale which I’m about to tell you is no different than you trying to score the hottest Christmas toy for your kid. When the stores are sold out of that toy, what do you do? You find someone who has one, and then pay them an extremely overinflated price to get it. If you've been paying attention at all to the stock market over the last week, you've probably heard the incredible story of GameStop, AMC theatres, bed bath and beyond, and a few other stocks that have been decimated over the last few years. On Wall Street there are companies called hedge funds. Their job is to basically put other businesses out of businesses by borrowing stock, selling it to an investor, and then driving the price down. These hedge funds then buy the stock back at a lower price and pocket the difference. This is known as “shorting” a stock.Keep in mind, in a lot of cases, they are doing this with stock that they don't even own. These hedge funds have been operating this way for so many years and made so much money, that they've practically achieved the status of being untouchable.Over on the message board Reddit there is a sub-page called wallstreetbets. One extremely savvy user named deep expletive value discovered that one of these hedge funds named Melvin capital was shorting the position on GameStop stock. In fact, they were shorting the stock at 140% of the available supply. Meaning they were trying to sell – and short sell – at least 40% of something that didn’t exist. How is this possible? Is it even legal? Probably not. But that's another discussion for another time. So our friend Deep Expletive Value over on the Reddit message convinced enough people from around the world to start buying GameStop stock in a well-timed and coordinated attack on the Hedge Fund. This would drive up the price and severely damage Melvin Capital. Because they – just like you trying to get that hot toy at Christmas - would have to pay overinflated prices to buy the stock back just to cover their original short position.Over the last week GameStop stock went from roughly $20 a share to almost 500 dollars. Adding fuel to the buying frenzy were celebrities such as Elon Musk, Mark Cuban, the rapper Ja Rule, and others. They were offering advice, and in some cases, encouraging people to buy.This insane price spike cost the hedge funds at least 10 billion dollars – if not more – this week alone.And the group of investors which all started on Reddit had grown from a ragtag few to thousands of people. Not just in the United States, but around the world. They wanted to get back at the Wall Street hedge funds who had a large part in the 2008 economic crash, received government bailouts, and still destroyed countless lives. This is the ultimate stick in the eye from David to Goliath. So what would any normal rational thinking business owner do? They would probably cut their losses lick their wounds and go home. But not Melvin capital. Instead, during this incredible price surge we saw during the week, Melvin capital actually doubled down on their short position. A display of arrogance so brazen, it's almost hard to comprehend. But it wasn't just one business that adopted this arrogant position, there were a few others. The most prominent and notable of these businesses that let their ego get out of control is the online trading platform Robin Hood. Robin Hood is an investing app to allow the average everyday person buy stock - even at a fraction of a share. And it’s where a lot of GameStop stock was being bought.When the price of GameStop AMC and all these other stocks skyrocketed, Robin Hood took the unprecedented step of not allowing their users to buy the stocks. At one point, you could sell GameStop, but you couldn’t buy it.Oh, it gets worse: over half of the people using the Robin Hood app own GameStop stock.And do you know who controls Robin Hood? Melvin capital. It's ironic for an app named Robin Hood, which implies take from the rich and give to the poor, that all of a sudden, they took the extremely unpopular position of defending the rich hedge fund.You can imagine the uproar on Reddit and even on traditional media outlets such as CNBC Bloomberg and Fox business. Even the Robin hood CEO bravely appeared on a few of these shows and defended the position of not allowing their users to buy GameStop stock. He claimed it was to protect the company, and the investors. Meanwhile most of the talking head expert financial people on CNBC Bloomberg etc were saying that this coordinated attack by a bunch of millennials who had no idea what they were doing, and they were going to get hurt. That couldn't be further from the truth. I personally have seen screenshots of people on Reddit who have lost $10 million in GameStop stock since the price jumped. and yet they were still holding $7 million of GameStop stock. Hardly the person I would call a millennial. But what these talking heads were really doing was twofold. One - they were defending their hedge fund buddies on Wall Street, and two - they were portraying the very people whose dollars they depend on as stupid. This is a level of arrogance in marketing and public relations I don't think any of us have ever seen. Had Melvin capital not doubled down, took their losses and regrouped, and if Robin Hood hadn't restricted their own users from buying GameStop stock AMC and others, they could have avoided a massive public backlash. Instead, Melvin Capital and Robin Hood chose the wrong path. They let their ego get in the way. Arrogance has killed many businesses, but hardly any more high-profile than this. Many Robin Hood users on Reddit have said that once the dust settles from this incredible stock run, that they are closing out their Robin Hood accounts. Which begs the question, when will this end? that's hard to say. The vast majority of these read it users who have bought GameStop stock, AMC, bed bath and beyond and others, have said that they are not selling. In fact, they have a term for it. It’s called “diamond hands.”And if they take a loss, they don't care. This is about principle. This is about teaching the hedge funds, who have rigged Wall Street for so long for the average consumer, a lesson that they will never forget. So what does that mean? Just like that hot Christmas toy, the longer somebody holds onto it, the more the price increases. Therefore, if these people who own these stocks don’t sell, and the hedge funds have to settle their short contracts, they will be forced to pay an exorbitant price for stocks that were worth far less just days ago.And that price could be just high enough to bankrupt Melvin capital, and other hedge funds. My prediction is that Robin Hood as an investment platform is essentially done. They will be relegated to the Myspace online trading apps. As for Melvin Capital? Time will tell. There is a silver lining to this crazy story. GameStop and AMC have raised so much money that they've been able to lower, or get out of, their corporate debt. In the end, a well-timed and well-researched plan from one savvy investor on a message board on the Internet may just save two very large American businesses. And yet some of these talking head experts are pretending that this is a bad thing. I disagree.in fact, one person on Reddit said he made so much money off is GameStop stock, that he went and bought 200 video game consoles from GameStop and donated them to a Children's Hospital in Dallas with his profits. The local news did a story about him. What's wrong with that? The bottom line here: the second that you think you or your business is above or better than anybody else - especially your consumers - is the very second you will go into a tailspin from which you may not be able to recover. Check your ego at the door. 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¿Qué está pasando con Gamestop, Robinhood y Reddit? ¿Qué es el Short Selling? ¿Qué tienen que ver los grandes fondos de inversión en esto, como Melvin Capital y Citadel? En este episodio te contamos qué está pasando con las WallStreetBets (Reddit) y el desorbitado nivel que han alcanzado las acciones de GameStop $GME, $AMC, $NOK, $BB, qué es el short selling o vender en corto acciones, el escándalo con Robinhood y nuestras predicciones a futuro!

In this episode of the podcast, I speak with long time buddy Brandon Young, a relatively new investor with just under a year of experience in the market. I attempt to lay the foundation on the recent market volatility caused my the battle between the little guy and the big guy. No where in this episode will I recommend any listener to invest in this current momentum play, but I attempt to explain the situation in latence terms so you can make your own informed decision. Please like and subscribe to the podcast and share it with anyone you know that can gain something from this community. Book I am currently reading: The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. Bogle https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075Z6HSCJ/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B075Z6HSCJ&linkCode=as2&tag=wallstjunky-20&linkId=58928ab03d01aea3f72eaa8a25150c29 Link to the Melvin Capital letter: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6omry/an_open_letter_to_melvin_capital_cnbc_boomers_and/ Follow me on Instagram & Twitter for up to date market color! https://twitter.com/WallStJunky44 https://www.instagram.com/wallstjunky/ Available places to stream the WallStJunky podcast: https://linktr.ee/wallstjunky Link to Facebook Investing Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/301632014175967/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wallstjunky/support

Once again we see how powerful social media is in our modern day. A retail investor posted about how the stock was undervalued on a public forum, WallStBets, and brought to light GameStop (GME) was shorted at 120% of the available shares by hedge funds. 4 Million people follow this forum. Retail investors, and FOMO investors bought the stock, the stock price shot up. Listen to hear what happens next. 2:20 - What is Shorting?8:00 - How did GME blow up?11:20 - What is a Short Squeeze?15:04 - Free Markets15:52 - Correction - The Stock was shorted 120% of the available shares, not 120x17:33 - Importance of Long Term Investing23:00 - What Happened with Melvin Capital

It appears that the nefarious and corrupt practices of hedge funds and market manipulators have been unexpectedly exposed this week as retail investors thwart the attempt for Melvin Capital to short GameStop while in the end getting short squeezedbbn to the tune of billions of dollars. Robinhood and Citadel are also on the hot seat and have garnered the attention of many who are intrigued by these events that took place and are seeking answers. The retail investors aka poor people are sick and tired and have had enough. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-crypto-wonder-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-crypto-wonder-podcast/support

Has the financial war between the have and have not's kicked off? The battle between the naked short selling hedge funds and the collective market united under the r/wallstreetbets subreddit has already proved bloody with the takedown of Melvin Capital and +$5B in total losses for other hedge funds. In this episode, we break down the full story and some of the outcomes that could be seen with what some are calling Occupy Wallstreet 2.0. Join The Nonconformist community on Telegram https://t.me/TheNonconformistChat Subscribe to get episodes right in your email inbox https://thenonconformist.substack.com/ Learn more https://thenonconformist.io/ Shop our swag https://thenonconformist.io/shop-2/ Learn Bitcoin https://adobtion.io/

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Dans ce podcast de 13mn, je reviens sur: ▪️sur les acteurs du scandale, GameStop, Reddit, Melvin Capital ▪️la vente à découvert ▪️la mobilisation d'internautes ▪️les leçons à tirer #reddit #gamestop #melvincapital Retrouver tous les épisodes de « La Voie Du Changement » sur les plateformes audio

We are joined by Major Tom, host of The Big Empty, to cover the happenings involving Gamestop, and the hedge funds eating a poop sandwich.  To support the show, please subscribe on Podbean, iTunes or Patreon Join the live audience on D-Live Follow on Twitter @BoogieBumper Join the Discord Grab Daily Boogie Merch Show Links; Steve Inman commentary Why is Wall Street obsessed with GameStop? How r/WallStreetBets Made GameStop's Stock Price Soar: Reddit Takes on Short Sellers The system is already kicking into gear to correct your behavior BREAKING: Melvin Capital closes out of its GameStop position, a stock which it had a short position on. Jim Cramer: Reddit's 'WallStreetBets' is targeting short positions Stock trading platforms suffer tech problems amid market mayhem "What we're seeing is essentially a pushback against the establishment in a really important way." "As we look at these new technologies that are available ... it's important for regulators to understand that manipulation is manipulation whether it's happening through a new technology medium or it's happening through traditional mail," CNBC guy becomes actually *flabbergasted* trying to explain GameStop and AMC rise The GameStop Short Squeeze Shows an Ugly Side of the Investing World After the coordinated short-squeeze deployed on GameStop by Reddit traders, Wall Street tries to figure out which of the market's most-hated shares could be targeted next i can report from the telegram channels that the nazis appear to be trading gamestop and amc as well Mark Blyth on Brexit, the EU, and "Trumpism" CNBC's David Faber said he is hearing a number of hedge funds are in similar trouble that Melvin Capital saw in its GameStop $GME and may need to be bailed out. Watch Major Tom on Dlive

On this jam packed episode of “Polarity” Shahzeb and Zach discuss the political ramifications of the GameStop short squeeze events of January 27th, including the potential bailout of hedge funds like Melvin Capital, potential SEC regulation of the Robinhood day trading app, and the social media censorship of the r/WallStreetBets Discord channel (1:15-18:05). They also discuss former president Donald J Trump's impending impeachment trial(18:06-33:20) and where it will head as well as President Joe Biden's progress on climate policy and racial equity policy (33:21-49:42). His series of recent executive orders with regards to "suspending new leases for natural gas and oil development on federal lands and waters" and "ordering the Department of Justice to end its reliance on private prisons" look promising but for an explanation on what this actually means...tune in to this episode of "Polarity!" Want to be featured on the show? Direct message us on social media or shoot us an email at polaritygang1@gmail.com Our Social media Instagram Twitter --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

✅ Please like, subscribe & comment if you enjoyed - it helps a lot! Link to FTX where you can still buy GME: https://ftx.com/#a=StartHere Will Wallstreetbets bankrupt Melvin Capital with Gamestop? This is one of the greatest business stories I've ever witnessed. For those who don't know Wallstreetbets is a subreddit which is dedicated to proudly “treating the stock market as a casino”. Now last year one user, we'll call him DFValue found out that a lot of hedge funds had short sold Gamestop, a struggling retailer of video games. The short interest was huge, over 100% which means more shares had been sold in the company through derivatives than actually exist. He buys a large amount of call options and starts posting about it on /r/wallstreetbets. A series of events including a new board member and a pivot towards building their online presence created some momentum. The stock was trading below $5 in August and starts to rise to around $18 at the beginning of 2021. As the share price starts to go up the hedge funds that shorted it start to lose money. Then things go from bad to worse for the hedge funds. Wallstreetbets users start piling in buying stocks and call options adding fuel to the fire. One particularly exposed hedge fund, Melvin Capital had previously boasted about shorting Tesla, Elon pipes up with a single tweet gamestonks and everything goes into ludicrous mode. The problem is that they sold so much stock there isn't enough sellers for them to buy it back at a reasonable price quick enough to cover their position. The share price goes through the roof and is trading at over $100. Melvin Capital has now lost more money on paper than it has. The worlds largest market maker Citadel provides a billion dollar bailout which doesn't last long. Citadel also has large influence on the brokers where they purchase order-flow. Today Robinhood, Interactive Brokers and Ameritrade all block the purchase of Gamestop shares. They are still allowing users to sell them and close positions but not purchase. You can imagine how the wallstreetbets users reacted, many of whom use Robinhood. Some of the biggest Wallstreet firms are opening themselves up to litigation with what is blatant unethical market manipulation. The fall out from this and knock on effects could be the most devastating since the fall of Lehman brothers in 2008. Tomorrow a large amount of call options expire and there isn't enough liquidity. Short interest is still over 100% and the stock is flying. The big question is will Wallstreetbets users and anyone else that's jumped on the trend sell and at what price? So I did what any spectator would do in this situation, picked up some popcorn & YOLO'd in. At this point it's not a financial investment it's a donation to the cause. There's zero chance I'm going to make any financial gains but at least I'll be able to tell my Grand kids about this one day. I went on FTX (link in the description) and opened up a small margin position on GME/USD. I know I'll never profit from it because... I'm not fucking selling. It can get liquidated as and when the wallstreetbets users see fit. I love a good underdog story and this has brightened up a cold wintery lockdown. To those taking on Wall Street, good luck to you.

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