Title:
The trolls of Wall Street : how the outcasts and insurgents are hacking the markets / Nathaniel Popper.
ISBN:
9780063205864
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2024]
©2024
Physical Description:
341 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction -- Occupy Reddit -- Barely staying alive -- The rise of Robinhood -- Becoming 4Chan -- Trolling for Trump -- The crypto threat -- Losing and learning -- Pandora's box opens -- The Gamma squeezes grow -- Crisis overload -- Davey daytrader -- Questions and moderation -- The GameStop gang -- A new level of trolling -- The big squeeze -- The center cannot hold -- Not going away -- Acknowledgments -- A note on sources -- Notes -- Index.
Summary:
This dramatic story shows how two self-proclaimed "degenerates" made WallStreetBets, a subreddit focused only on risky financial trading, a cultural movement by harnessing the power of memes and trolling to create a new kind of online community, changing how an entire generation thinks about money, investing and themselves.
OCLC Number:
on1436703380
Availability:
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