EPISODE · Feb 5, 2021 · 39 MIN
Macro Man Vs. YOLO Boy
from What Goes Up · host Bloomberg
Like a lot of parents these days, Cameron Crise is dealing with a teenager at home who wants to get into day-trading and reap the type of the windfalls boasted about by the WallStreetBets crowd.Crise, a former hedge-fund trader and now a strategist at Bloomberg who writes the “Macro Man” column, had a novel way of handling the situation. Inspired by the classic movie “Trading Places,” he proposed a $1 bet on where GameStop shares were headed and another wager that his son Patrick could not double his money in three days with some Reddit-inspired paper trading that didn’t actually put any of the son’s – or more importantly, father’s -- money at risk in the market.Who won this battle of Macro Man vs. YOLO Boy? Tune in to find out!Mentioned in this podcast:Meme Stocks Lose $167 Billion as Reddit Crowd Preaches DefianceReddit’s Market ‘Hype Machine’ Is in a Quest to Drive Out BotsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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