How WallStreetBets works
Feb 6th 2021“LIKE 4CHAN found a Bloomberg terminal.” This is how WallStreetBets, a forum with 8.5m followers on Reddit, a…
Germany’s finance minister promises to overhaul financial regulation
WHEN MATTHEW EARL first called the whistleblower hotline of BaFin, Germany’s financial regulator, to report suspicious business…
Chinese investors’ access to foreign assets expands—a bit
Feb 6th 2021THE 55-KILOMETRE Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge is a quick drive but a technical challenge. The trip requires motorists…
How should economists think about biodiversity?
Feb 6th 2021WHAT IS THE contribution of nature to the economy? Students of economics are well acquainted with production functions,…
A new epoch for retail investors is just beginning
FOR NEARLY a fortnight, the world was mesmerised by the fortunes of GameStop. Shares in the beleaguered brick-and-mortar purveyor…
High-frequency traders are in the spotlight
They are the stockmarket’s new intermediariesFROM ONE perspective, retail stock traders have never had it so good. There is…
Why the WallStreetBets crowd are able to profit from predatory trading
Textbooks say it can’t happen. But there are times when front-running distressed traders pays offFeb 2nd 2021“THERE ARE no…
How the GameStop saga threatens Robinhood
FROM THE kerb it does not look like much. The low-slung terracotta building is a far cry from the futuristic spaceship-style campuses…
As trading restrictions are lifted, the GameStop frenzy continues
Regulators and politicians are weighing inJan 29th 2021SHARES IN GAMESTOP, an American video-game retailer, resumed their wild…