Stock market hype: Gamestop: the big ones cashed in with the small revolution

Behind the allegedly novel battle for the American video game retailer Gamestop lies well-known greed.

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This week seemed to be stock market history unlike any other. Probably the best description was found in the “Wall Street Journal”: It was like a horde of couch potatoes suddenly put down beer and chips, heave their bellies out of the television couch – and then straddle Lionel Messi and the entire defense of Dribble out Barcelona.