Wallstreetbets, Shorts, and the Stock Market

Los and Bertram discuss the recent controversy on Reddit (subreddit: Wallstreetbets), where Bertram had a first-hand account of for the last few months. Where does the stock market go from here and how will this whole saga play out? Thank you for listening! We love you. Don't forget to subscribe, leave a review, spread the word about this podcast. Resources from this episode: https://www.theverge.com/22251427/reddit-gamestop-stock-short-wallstreetbets-robinhood-wall-street (How Reddit gamed the stock of GameStop) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/business/stocks-options-bubble.html?name=styln-gamestop&region=TOP_BANNER&block=storyline_menu_recirc&action=click&pgtype=Article&impression_id=ad3d9af1-633e-11eb-8e8b-8940b3824ea7&variant=1_Show (How Options Trading Could Be Fueling a Stock Market Bubble - The New York Times) https://www.sofi.com/learn/content/history-of-the-stock-market/ (A Brief History of the Stock Market - SoFi Learn) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzCEQu1vDfE (AOC learns how Robinhood makes its money | YouTube) https://youtu.be/_XgU6ZT1QDk (Why 40,000 People Die for Every 1% Increase in Unemployment - The Big Short) https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/25/22248335/amc-bankruptcy-debt-movies-delay-streaming (AMC Theatres staves off bankruptcy) https://financialpost.com/investing/whats-23-billion-gamestop-really-worth-maybe-2-billion (What's $23-billion GameStop really worth? Maybe $2 billion) https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/law-prof-who-wrote-textbook-on-securities-regulation-explains-wallstreetbets-retail-investors-have-revolted-and-stormed-the-bastille/ (Law professor explains this mess) https://investorplace.com/2021/01/robinhood-bans-wallstreetbets-reddit-stocks-koss-gme-stock-nakd-stock/ (Robinhood bans GME) https://newrepublic.com/article/161126/gamestop-rally-cnbc-reddit-stocks (What the GameStop Rally Has Revealed About Financial Media)