Let’s look at how some ETFs are reacting to the first Fed announcement of the year (which obviously was content-free):

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Let’s look at how some ETFs are reacting to the first Fed announcement of the year (which obviously was content-free):

GameStop isn’t the only target of the squeeze team. Just look at AMC Entertainment. It was $1.91 earlier this month. Now it’s in the mid-teens. Let’s just all agree that paying huge leases on empty movie theatres isn’t a great business model, but that obviously doesn’t mean anything anymore.

Well, my little parking lot missive was a massive hit. I guess certain Slopers don’t know an awesome post when they see one. In any case, time for a comments cleaner, and this graph seems as germane as any:

About a year ago, not that many people had heard of WallStreetBets, and even fewer people frequented the place. Sure, as an investment subculture of the Internet, it was a fairly big deal, but the growth and media presence over the past year has been stunning.
This post isn’t about WSB in general but about one user in particular: he goes by the R-rated screen name of /deepfuckingvalue, but for the sake of semi-decency, we’ll just refer to this anonymous trader as DFV. I’m also going to assume that “he” is a “he”, since the male/female ratio of WSB is about a billion to one.
(more…)If I ever do an update to my Panic Prosperity and Progress book, I’m going to have a lot of fresh material.
