In January, a Reddit community endeavoured to undercut Wall Street hedge funds and made international news in the process. As with many happenings on the market, understanding the particulars can be made difficult by murky terminology and slipshod history. To help contextualize these issues, host Jake Clark sits down with Professor P.M. Vasudev — a specialist in business law who earned a Ph.D. from Osgoode Hall and now teaches at the University of Ottawa — to discuss short selling, Canadian vs. American securities law, and what it means to combine the study of law and economics.