Emergency Podcast: The Story Behind Gamestop, A Conversation With Ranjan Roy of Margins

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Technology, Religion & Spirituality, Business News, Business, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Politics, News Commentary, Government, Investing, Tech News, Social Sciences, News

4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Ranjan Roy has documented the fundamental issues driving today's market volatility, from Zero Interest Rate Policy to the rise of Robinhood. He joins Big Technology Podcast for an emergency episode on the Gamestop madness, explaining the forces behind the surge. You can read Margins here on Substack: https://themargins.substack.com/ And two specific articles we discuss: https://themargins.substack.com/p/robinhood-and-how-to-lose-money https://themargins.substack.com/p/game-stop https://themargins.substack.com/p/zirp-explains-the-world

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	From LinkedIn News, I'm Leah Smart, host of Everyday Better, an award-winning podcast dedicated to personal development.
0:06.1	Join me every week for captivating stories and research to find more fulfillment in your work and personal life.
0:11.8	Listen to Every Day Better on the LinkedIn Podcast Network, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:17.1	Have you been feeling the effects of stress, burnout, or anxiety at work?
0:21.6	Listen to the Anxious Achiever podcast to rethink the relationship between your career and your mental health.
0:28.6	Get the Anxious Achiever wherever you find your podcasts and walk away with practical advice you can implement today.
0:37.0	Hello and welcome to the Big Technology podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced
0:40.8	conversation of the tech world and beyond.
0:43.2	And today we're doing an emergency podcast, no intro music.
0:46.0	We've got to get this up on the internet as soon as possible.
0:48.8	And the reason is because I think it's time to dissect everything going on with the
0:53.2	game stop situation and what it means for the stock market. Now, I think it's time to dissect everything going on with the GameStop situation and what it means for the stock market.
0:55.9	Now, I think it's important on this show to focus on the systems that underlie what we see in the headlines, not the headlines itself.
1:03.7	You can read all the stories. We want to tell you what's actually going on in the economy and the political system that makes what we see in the headlines. So,
1:12.9	and do it in a way that's without spin and just gets right to the heart of the issues.
1:18.3	And so I think that's important to do it with the GameStop story in particular because
1:22.8	there have been a lot of frothy headlines and a lot of inaccurate, in my opinion, takes about what's going on.
1:29.6	And it's all been moving so fast and it's been hard to keep up with anyway.
1:34.1	And I'd really like to get to the heart of the matter.
1:37.0	And joining us today is someone who I've been reading fairly religiously.
1:41.1	I assigned myself all of his work over the winter break and feel decently
1:45.9	caught up. And I think that there's nobody in better position to weigh in on what's happening
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Alex Kantrowitz, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Alex Kantrowitz and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.