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Emergency Pod! WallStreetBets vs. Suits, breaking down the GameStop fiasco & more | E1167

This Week in Startups

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Is Wall Street Leveraged?

Hedge funds are trying to organize against innovation. Why is it allowed for somebody running a hedgehrung to basically an that they are market neutral, but be levered up? They take a ten billion dollar fund, and their prime brokers allow them to run a hundred billion dollars of notional experience,. who thinks that that's fair? It's not fair to the retail investor. The government bails im out. Who is the government? All of ut so, you know, retal has been the bag holder before. Hedgh funs have caused these things before. So if you're going to talk about taking the gun away from the baby, let's make sure we figure out

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