Animal Spirits: The Big Squeeze
Courtesy of Michael Batnick
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On today’s show we discuss:
- Who owns the stock market?
- Hedge funds got hit in the squeeze
- Melvin Capital got it the worst
- But these suits made a killing
- So did these suits
- Citron is throwing in the towel on short-selling research
- Santoli on what happened last week
- Here’s Matt Levine’s take
- Cullen on short-selling
- Robinhood’s message to customers on Thursday. They blew it
- Here’s what they said on Friday
- Robinhood drew down bank credit lines
- And they raised a lot of money
- Here’s Vlad in USA Today
- Robinhood and the Facebook comparison
- Fidelity buy and sell orders
- Nadig on where we go from here
- This story got political real quick
- Packy McCormick on how Robinhood got Robinhooded
- Robinhood wasn’t the only broker that restricted trading
- Wall Street always wins
- It feels like the game is rigged
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