This is no different than how it has been all along...the 1% running the rigged game, dribbling out tiny teeny little scraps to keep the proletariat happy enough to keep voting to give all the money to the top 1%.
As long as you think that's ok, this is what you will get.
The part here that will be trouble for the manipulators and riggers is that their game was used against them, and they turned off the lights and shut the game down...which does not happen when they are fleecing us...that's just the "risk you take" when it's the other way around.
Jason, what happened here is that hedge fund managers shorted stocks...they make money when the stock loses value, and the money they make is yours that you lost when the stock went down and you sold at a loss.
A bunch of folks, mostly on reddit, got together and bought the fuckk out of the stocks that the managers shorted, driving the price of them thru the roof, and the managers' short position now lost them a TON of money. Now they have to buy the stocks at a far higher price than what they bet on.
As I said above...when that happens to the 99.9% who think they are in the game, the money disappears and reappears as yachts, mansions, and stock buy backs.
When it happens to the .1%, they stop the game in the middle, take their ball and go home.
That kind of collusion should have the feds all up their asses...but even if a bunch of them go to jail, it won't matter as long as the rest of us continue to play along and continue to allow them to transfer all of our wealth into smaller and smaller segments of society.
"We" just gave that .1% a massive tax break a few years ago, funding their plundering of the US taxpayer...the rest of us will see our taxes go up next year, and not because Biden raises them, but because that's how the Trump Tax Plan was designed.
Until voters who are duped into thinking that spreading our nation's wealth to our citizens is bad, but letting the top 1% literally plunder us and take all the money is "capitalism", then this will never stop.
I am glad these dudes figured it out.
We got in on some of this about 9 months ago, our portfolio is up about 1700%
Also...for those who were dumb enough to think that Robinhood is some sort of white hat trading house...they are owned by Citadel, affiliated with TD Ameritrade, and are just as bad as they rest...they used their investors to run up the stocks that they owned, and when shitt went sideways, they, too, stopped the trading, in collusion with all the rest.
Fish on...
Todd