What should we make of the spikes in the stock prices of companies like GameStop and AMC Entertainment? Has the pandemic suspended the laws of economics as they apply to share prices? Is there something more nefarious going on? Some brokerage…
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GameStop chaos offers test of post-2008 financial regime
Chaos erupted on Wall Street this week as members of a stock trading group on Reddit collectively bought stock in GameStop and AMC, among others, unexpectedly and exponentially raising stock prices. Robert Hockett is professor of law at Cornell…

Law Professor, Derivatives Expert, Available to Comment on GameStop’s Wild Ride on Wall Street
“This is the case of the common man taking hedge fund billionaires to the cleaners,” says Michael Greenberger, Maryland Carey Law professor and financial derivatives expert, of the extraordinary events taking place on Wall Street where GameStop shares have soared…
Wall Street Bracing for a Democrat Sweep. (Expert Available)
With President Donald Trump trailing Joe Biden by wider and wider margins in recent weeks, Wall Street has begun to brace for the return of a Democratic White House. Finance professor David Kass, at the University of Maryland’s Robert H.…