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EP11: Gaming the Stock Market (w/ Matt Christman of Chapo Trap House)

EP11: Gaming the Stock Market (w/ Matt Christman of Chapo Trap House)

FromDarts and Letters


EP11: Gaming the Stock Market (w/ Matt Christman of Chapo Trap House)

FromDarts and Letters

ratings:
Length:
60 minutes
Released:
Feb 12, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description






For a moment, all the eyes of the world were on GameStop. It’s unexpected, meteoric rise. It’s inevitable fall. The saga became a rorschach test for our politics. Was it a revolutionary moment, the many pushing back against the few? Was it an old school pump and dump, just folks out to make some money? And who was against whom, exactly? 



Well, it was…a spectacle. That’s for sure. We dive into the wild world of stocks, the bubbles of present and the past, and the spectacularized social media environment that is distorting our very understanding of true politics. Abandon all hope, ye who enter. 
Released:
Feb 12, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (99)

This is about ‘arts and letters,’ but for the kind of people who might hack a dart. We cover public intellectualism and the politics of academia from a left perspective. Each week, we interview thinkers about key debates that are relevant to the left. We discuss politics, culture, and intellectual history.