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E19: Breaking down Robinhood's GameStop decision: Why did it happen and how can it be prevented in the future?

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

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Is There a Global Calamity in Stock Trading?

Stocks traded a total volume last year. Do you think that a hundred and 21 trillion dollars of notional equity value trading provided capital to businesses anywhere close to one % of that total amount of trading volume? It really is a synthetic instrument that allows people to participate in i bet that something is going to go up, and i bet that somethingis to go down,. And at the end of the day, the underlying business entity doesn't benefit whatsoever. Obran: We need to rebuild this infra structure. You can't have a hundred and 36 percent of a company be short. That makes no sense. The second, what we've learned is that, again, theariina

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