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156 | Ben Mezrich: How the GameStop Short Squeeze Brought Wall Street to Its Knees

The Realignment

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What's the Difference Between Wall Street and Social Media?

During the dot combubble, during the 19 nineties, there's al wese stories about some kid in his basement buying stocks. But you didn't have nine million people able to do this together. And that's one big, big difference. Ten years ago, opening a trading account was the biggest pain in the a o paas. Back then, during the docton boom, or to two thousand eight, or any of that time periods,. it was actually kind of hard to buy and sell stocks.

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