How Redditors Exposed The Stock Market
When a bunch of Redditors combined forces to drive up the price of GameStop stock, it exposed a fundamental problem with the stock market. The Problem with the Stock Market, now streaming on Apple TV+, delves into what really happens when you buy a stock, how giant corporations skim money off of your investments, and how Redditors used GameStop stock to expose the sys...
From the moment we’re born, we’re taught that if we want to get rich, we must invest in the stock market. (Looking at you, E*Trade baby!) But what no one teaches us is that the market was built to favor a select few financial firms. As we learn in this episode, the system has only gotten more corrupt as time has gone on, and even as more individuals are investing than ever before, things continue to be wildly unfair.
