How a Bunch of Redditors with $600 Stimulus Checks Outsmarted Wall Street Hedge-Fund Managers

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The craziest financial story of the week has got to be GameStop stock’s meteoric rise from $6 a share to $340 a share overnight. It all began when Melvin Capital hedge-fund managers decided to short GameStop, betting the stock would fall. But a lot of retail investors viscerally hate billion-dollar hedge-fund managers who make a living manipulating the stock market and driving small investors out of the game.

The investors on Reddit’s “Wall Street Bets” page got together to buy, buy, buy GameStop and drove the stock way up, costing Melvin Capital billions of dollars. You could say it was a massive redistribution of Wall Street wealth to Main Street traders.

Kickboxing champion Andrew Tate said, “If I have to lose six million to destroy Wall Street, I’m ready to f*cking go. F*ck ’em. These people on Reddit are geniuses.” He went on to explain why he and a lot of people don’t like Wall Street hedge-fund tycoons:

They’re the worst people on earth…they have no talent, they don’t make money, they just have a pot of money and they manipulate markets to make their pot go up with other people’s money and they get bailed out by the government anyway. They’re the worst people in the world.

Tate laughed uproariously imagining Melvin Capital financial teams waking up to the news that GameStop had a 600% increase overnight and wiped out 30% of their entire net worth. (Tate can be seen in the YouTube video at the bottom of this article.) Rumors of bankruptcy prompted a cash bailout of $2.75 billion by billionaire investors to keep Melvin Capital solvent.

Steve Cohen’s Point 72, Ken Griffin’s Citadel, and other partners are plowing a total of $2.75 billion into Melvin Capital, the hedge funds said on Monday. They will receive non-controlling revenue shares in Melvin in return for their money.

Melvin will welcome the cash injection as painful short bets have left it down 30% year-to-date as of Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Elon Musk tweeted out support for the populist takeover of the market, which some credit as being the catalyst for the rocket-like rise of GameStop’s stock price.

The financial establishment is calling for “authorities” to do something about it. Why? The stock market is all about gambling. It’s a game. The finance bros are just mad that some guys on Reddit played better than the hedge-fund managers who are used to winning. Oh well! You win some and you lose some, boys! The memes are hilarious.

 

Even NASDAQ was threatening to shut down the market over the mass inflation of GameStop stock to protect their friends on Wall Street. NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman was literally stuttering her way through a justification for regulating the people who made the house lose. This didn’t convince me of any wrongdoing. Does it convince you?

Taking billions out of the market and bankrupting people is only something hedge fund managers get to do, not you people in your underwear trading at home. Duh.

Redditors are posting what they’re going to do with their winnings. #Billions is trending on Twitter.

Investor Jason Calacanis pointed out that a bunch of kids with $600 stimulus checks created the perfect storm and managed to screw Wall Street.

Charles Payne knows what’s up. “I didn’t hear one person on tv complaining about Wall Street trying to crush GameStop. 140% short! I told my subscribers to buy this stock and they made a fortune,” he told Fox Business. He’s 100% right. And the financial establishment’s push for regulation is a sad attempt to “change the rules of the game now after the general public is making money,” said Payne. “Individual investors are playing the same game you are playing only now you’re losing.” So grow up, Wall Street, and stop running to Mommy to regulate the players who outsmarted you.

This is an excellent commentary.

Let’s not forget that Wall Street made billions on the overinflation of the housing market in the early 2000s, which left many Americans homeless and ushered in what is now known as The Great Recession that caused joblessness and suffering. No one feels sorry for Wall Street tycoons.

Paul Joseph Watson does a great job breaking this down. Try not to laugh too hard and enjoy this rare moment when Main Street took back some of the ill-gotten gains that Wall Street took from the taxpayers in the form of endless bailouts while Americans got stuck with the bill.

 

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