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

The Realignment

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How to Buy Gamestop on Robin Hood

A brokerage, has to put up a certain amount of collateral against all the asks and bids that are going through his company. So what did they do, they froze the ability to buy gamestop on robin hood. And this was like a lightning strike. Basically, all these retail people could no longer buy the stock.

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