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The Free Market Isn't Free | The GameStop Saga Explained

By popular demand, here's Second Thought's take on the GameStop/Reddit/Robinhood stock market debacle. In this episode, we take a look at the strange and deeply funny spectacle of a bunch of normal people tanking a hedge fund, but more importantly, we analyze what the subsequent crackdown shows us about the "free market."

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