{"id":39125,"date":"2021-02-15T14:38:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T19:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=39125"},"modified":"2021-02-18T13:55:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T18:55:43","slug":"explaining-reddits-wallstreetbets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/explaining-reddits-wallstreetbets\/","title":{"rendered":"Local professor explains Reddit&#8217;s WallStreetBets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Host:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ivan_Angelovski\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Ivan Angelovski<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But things are not so black and white. They are mostly grey, and that\u2019s 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">--<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This program is a part of the \u201cLocal Journalism Initiative\u201d grant program and is funded by the Community Radio Fund of Canada, the Government of Canada, and the CKMS Newsroom.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check out the archived versions of\u00a0 this program and other episodes on <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/radiowaterloo.ca\/news\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">radiowaterloo.ca\/news<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. You can\u00a0 follow us on twitter <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RadioWaterloo\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@RadioWaterloo<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And you can email news@radiowaterloo.ca to get in touch with comments or ideas about stories to cover.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The music was Blackroom by Moby, courtesy of <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/mobygratis.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mobygratis.com<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 But things are not so black and white. They are mostly grey,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":39129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217],"tags":[6077,6075,6076,6078],"radio":[253],"origine":[267,271,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39125"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=39125"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=39125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}