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more than $70 billion so far this year. This year hasn't been going on for very long.

This all part of the GameStop madness, the Dogecoin madness, and most importantly of all

for our politics as a result of the established platforms, the big institutions pushing back

will get into it. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Curbable Air Force, who says,

I have dubbed this outsider trading. That's the thing. When we talk about insider trading,

we say people who have sort of secret knowledge that they shouldn't have and they make money,

it's illegitimate. Well, there's another kind of insider trading. It's people who are

on the inside who are in the giant financial institutions who are cozy with the regulators,

who are cozy with the tech apps that are the broker dealers that allow you to make these

trades. Then they're the outsiders. These rap scallions on Reddit and other retail investors

who, when they try to use the same strategies that the institutional investors do, they get

completely shut out. Can't have those peasants making too much money at all. It just reminds

us when we see how rigged so many of these systems are, you got to protect your data online.

You've got to get ExpressVPN. Big tech companies have a ton of power in our country today.

And as private entities, they can operate pretty much as they choose. Protect your personal

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