Local professor explains Reddit’s WallStreetBets

Game Stop and other stocks are being driven up by investors capitalizing on hedge fund short selling. Image used with permission of Youtooz.
Dan Kellar - CKMS - KitchenerON | 15-02-2021
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Host: Ivan Angelovski

In January, a group of people, small stock market investors, members of a Reddit forum called WallStreetBets, got organized and decided to stick it to the man. This David Vs. Goliath narrative is, at least, what has been put forward. 

But things are not so black and white. They are mostly grey, and that’s what CKMS is talking about today with David Cimon, assistant professor of finance at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. 

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The music was Blackroom by Moby, courtesy of mobygratis.com