Lemme give you the skinny. A bunch of rich hedge fund Wall Street fucks are shorting GameStop stocks. A bunch of millennials with stimmy checks are like fuck the man, we grew up on GameStop and love it. Millennials also be like, I didn’t get cheap college, stable jobs, cheap houses, and I’m locked up in the house and with years of online World of Warcraft coordination they have a set of skills, a specific set of skills...so Imma watch the world burn. The hedge funds can’t cover what they leveraged, and are going bankrupt. Now these investment apps are disallowing transactions for some of the targeted businesses.
All is fair in love and capitalism, IMO. However, the best way to end up disappearing is fucking with rich peoples money...sooooo. And I’m almost positive this will be labeled as ‘market manipulation’ some how. Also, now you have an obsolete business/model with a ridiculously overinflated valuation on paper, that’s worthless on the street. But I’m really curious to see how all this plays out, not like you can ban day traders, and what’s stopping groups of people from strategically doing this one business at a time.