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

The Realignment

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The Railworld and Occupy Wall Street

Morkan: Why did the railroad version of this fail to make an impact at all, beyond inconveniencing some people of a park verse s this? Right? Great question. And i do tie a lot of this fact to occupy wall street, because i think there's some themes that are very similar. It's this anger towards the fat cats making fortunes while everyone gets screwed. But on line, through social media, the whole world can erupt and react and do something together with very little effort andd in a way that's so much more targeted.

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