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Gamestop, a sleepy retail brand that has been going bankrupt slowly over the years, is suddenly the topic of discussion de jure. Everybody is obsessed with it, and here's why. So Gamestop stock is going crazy right now, and it's because there is a band of rebel retail investors on Reddit and online kind of message board forum community. They convene in a place called Wall Street Bets, and they have become obsessed with Gamestop stock as a result of short sellers, uh, betting against the company. If you want to understand what's going on with Gamestop, you have to understand short selling. There are funds out there who will take a position out against a company. They're betting that these companies are going to decline. Their stock prices are going to go down. Um, and in order to do that, they borrow stock, they borrow stock, they sell it, and then they have to eventually repay that loan. That stock they borrowed and they have to buy it again later. As a result, they hope that the stock will go down and that they can pocket that difference in price. But if the price goes up and they have to buy it again. Then that just adds more pressure on the stock. Uh, more upward pressure as people are buying it, and the short sellers actually actually have to buy it as well. Uh, suddenly you have this buying frenzy. It creates a feedback loop. Uh, and in the case of a stock like Gamestop, where there aren't that many shares outstanding, there isn't that much stock out there to trade. Um, because you have that scarcity of the actual stocks. All this pressure is just forcing it upward like a geyser. Citron Research, a notable hedge fund short seller, has had to call it quits on the stock. And you've got other ones like Melvin Capital Management. They've actually had to get bailed out, apparently by there by some other investors, including the hedge fund of Steven A. Cohen, who's a owner of the Mets baseball team. You might know him from that. Um, and they are having to basically throw some of these hedge funds a life raft because they're going to go. They're going to go belly up, uh, losing billions on this trade. Mm. Yeah. So, because of all this insanity, this craziness, this madness going on on some of these brokerage apps like Robin Hood like TD Ameritrade. Um, they have actually pulled the plug. They have stopped people from being able to buy stocks like Gamestop and some others that have gone crazy as well, Like BlackBerry and am see the movie theater chain. And instead, they're just allowing people to sell the stock to actually close out their positions. You have a bunch of people in Congress now who are actually calling for investigations of this, uh, aoc, um she has actually said that she thinks it is not right that Robin Hood has, uh, stopped allowing people to do these trades. Pretty stunningly. Ted Cruz from Texas Republican across the aisle, He has retweeted her saying that he supports that view. Um, you know, the fact that there is bipartisan support here, both Democrats and Republicans are finding something to agree on is pretty astounding. Uh, and it probably spells trouble for companies like Robin Hood. I think there's gonna be a thorough investigation as to what has gone on here. The SEC, the Securities and Exchange Commission is probably going to look at Reddit and at Wall Street bets and see whether there was any market manipulation going on. Um, there are a lot of questions to be answered. Uh, one the dust settles. Mm. Mhm.

[MUSIC PLAYING] KATHERINE DUNN: The UK still has one of the highest COVID-19 death tolls in the world. And the question now is, what happened? The numbers are really sobering. Over 48,000 people have now died. In terms of per capita numbers, it's the highest after San Marino and Belgium. And in terms of the total absolute numbers, it's only topped by the US and Brazil, which are much larger countries with much larger populations. For the UK, in the recent political era that we're in is Brexit. You could say that the country was exhausted. It was divided from years of toxic political debates. There was a new government with a clear mandate, which was to deliver Brexit. And when I talked to academics and historians and doctors throughout the pandemic, this is one thing that's come up, is that in some ways, despite the advice of scientific advisors for the British government, the UK sleepwalked into a pandemic. If we started the first turning point for the UK, we're looking at the timing of the pandemic. As Spain and Italy were going into a very deep lockdown, the UK was still saying that there was more time to go. And by the time the UK went into a lockdown at the end of March, it was already too late. Boris Johnson has admitted the government didn't understand the coronavirus in the first few weeks and months of the pandemic. The second thing is the UK went into the pandemic with insufficient infrastructure in terms of personal protective equipment. Health workers and the NHS complained that they did not have sufficient protective equipment. They could not get tested. And the UK effectively stopped testing anyone who was not in the hospital for COVID-19 and sometimes not even then. And from the beginning, the UK was trailing other countries, saying that these elements were not as important as other countries might think they were and then trying to catch up months later. The third turning point is when Boris Johnson, the prime minister of the UK, himself got COVID-19. There isn't a deputy prime minister in the sense there is in other countries. You were looking at a rotating lineup of government ministers who were all trying to fill in for him, so presenting the picture that there was little central control. And it wasn't exactly clear who had the last word on what decisions were going to be made. The fourth thing is probably the re-opening confusion. Boris Johnson announces a catchphrase, moving from his "stay home" catchphrase-- very clear-- to stay alert. Stay alert, control the virus, and save lives. We start to see a lot of divisions in the nations that make up the United Kingdom, including Scotland. The leader of the Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon, in fact told Scots to ignore Boris Johnson and to reopen on a Scottish timetable, which is when you see moments in the history of the pandemic when Boris Johnson is really only speaking for England. Number 5 is the Dominic Cummings saga. He's a chief political advisor to Boris Johnson. He's not elected. And he's a very controversial figure in the UK. Because he was a key architect of Vote Leave, which was the campaign to leave the European Union in the first place. It comes out that Dominic Cummings had broken lockdown rules in the depths of the pandemic. So not only does he not resign-- not only does the government not fire him, the government defends him and says that his actions were right and just, creating the sense of one rule for the British people and one rule for the political elite. If there is another wave in the UK, this could have a really massive set of consequences for how the UK can manage it and the level of trust in political leaders. So when the UK went into this pandemic, it went into it a really divided, exhausted country, actually. And months later, it's coming out of that. And arguably, that's even more the case now than it was at the start of the year. [MUSIC PLAYING] 

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