How WallStreetBets Pushed GameStop Shares to the Moon

Bloomberg
Bloomberg
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9 min readJan 25, 2021

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By Brandon Kochkodin

Short sellers have been called a lot of things. Bloodsuckers. Parasites. Other words not fit to print. Now in the vortex engulfing GameStop Corp., they have a new name: the establishment.

It’s a role cast for them with relish by their chat-room usurpers, the tens of thousands of average Joe day-traders whose fervor for a…

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