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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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Game Stop Calls Hit en All Time High, and Now That's What Happened in the Market

The stock was at 35 50 on january nineteenth. Then over the next two days, game stop calls hit en all time high and it runs a two day rally of almost 70%. And this is what really starts what's called a gam a squeeze, ok? The squeeze keeps happening, and then it starts to spill over to the rest of the market. Now that's been reversed to day. There are questions as to whether or not this was mandated by the platforms or the regulators. Given the fact that it didn't impact all the brokerage accounts, it was a platform level decision. Some organizations, like robin hood, banned it, some organizations did not. It could be that some

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