From how Animal Crossing taught gamers how to pick stocks to the beach bum who made millions betting on the short squeeze happening to what a short squeeze is, The Ringer has the GameStop stock saga covered from all angles. Follow along with our coverage below.
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Everything You Need to Know About the GameStop Story
From how ‘Animal Crossing’ taught gamers how to pick stocks to the beach bum who made millions on the short squeeze, The Ringer has the GameStop stock saga covered from all angles
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March 1, 2021
How Neopets Predicted the Future of the Social Internet
Twenty years before Reddit users waged war against Wall Street, Neopets users led their own stock market revolution. It wasn’t the only way in which the site offered a glimpse of our online experience to come.
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February 24, 2021
The Story Behind the Beach Bum Who Struck Gold on GameStop
In a special episode of ‘Gamblers,’ we dive into the tale of Mike McCaskill, an amateur stock trader from Louisville who spent years swinging for the fences—and beat Wall Street in the GameStop saga for the ages
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February 24, 2021
How GameStop Became the Next Hollywood Bubble
There are at least nine documentaries and dramatizations in the works about the GameStop stock short squeeze that consumed the nation in January and February. How does that happen? And what does Hollywood’s long history of dueling, ripped-from-the-headlines adaptations tell us about what to expect?
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February 16, 2021
The Beach Bum Who Beat Wall Street and Made Millions on GameStop
Mike McCaskill spent years scouring the stock market and betting on long shots. Then he found the opportunity that changed his life—and helped spark the mother of all short squeezes.
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February 9, 2021
How ‘Animal Crossing’ May Have Informed the GameStop Stock Rush
The "meme stock" craze of January and early February may have had an unlikely forebear in Nintendo’s hit game
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February 3, 2021
GameStop: A Millennial Concern?
Micah Peters and Justin Charity weigh in on the ongoing GameStop saga and predict what impact GameStop’s demise will have on the future of the internet
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February 1, 2021
GameStop Takes With Katie Baker. Plus: Super Bowl Hype!
Bryan, David, and Katie talk a crazy week for the stock market before previewing Super Bowl LV
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January 29, 2021
Best Beal Trades, the GameStop Scandal, and Super Bowl Talk With Joe House, Andrew Ross Sorkin, and Jamal Adams
Discussing potential trades for Bradley Beal, GameStop’s surging stock prices, how defensive play has evolved with NFL rule changes, Super Bowl predictions, and much more
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January 29, 2021
‘Industry’ Creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay on the Made-for-TV GameStop Story.
Plus, ‘Game of Thrones’ news and ‘Mr. Mayor’
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January 28, 2021
The GameStop Stock Market Saga Explainer Dictionary
In some ways, this week’s stonks story has odd historical precedent. In others, it represents a new frontier. Here’s what you need to know about shorts, Reddit, Robinhood, and the New York Mets.