Originally published at: Woman explains GameStop short-selling likes she's five | Boing Boing
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I wonder with shorting shares, why the gambling commission isn’t involved?
“I own stocks so I have a pretty good understanding of the stock market”
That delivery was excellent. Someone give this comedian a sitcom.
I held it together until “online reading club”.
I loved, “Not today! We want hedges too.”
Online reading groups FTW.
BTW In case folks haven’t seen it, Cory’s explanation has everything:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/28/payment-for-order-flow/#wallstreetbets
I showed this video to my wife a couple days ago. Once it got to the “Not today!..” bit, she lost it.
That’s an excellent writeup. As they say, the real crime is what’s legal.
I’m re-watching The Magicians where “Hedges” are going around paying for things with “deweys” and it feels like that should fit right in.
What a great name “Avalon Penrose” is.
I hope that’s her birth name and not a stage name, but either way it’s nice.
So it boils down to a shrubbery? Now I totally get it.
Hope this works;
That actually improved my understanding of the situation.
It’s funny how cars have become a defacto private space to make videos. Shades of “Americathon.”
This reminds me of the former President of the United States when he explained modern medicine to me.
Carsplains should be a word.
I almost skipped it for that reason. Glad I didn’t.
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