This is Squawk Pod. I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer. Two big stories today on our

podcast. The rise of the retail investor. Game stops meteoric rise from the

ashes, a Reddit forum, a coordinated

squeeze and five billion dollar losses on Wall Street. If you think this is

manipulation, what do you think Wall Street's doing every day to us, the retail

investors? Is GameStop just a show of retail investors'

frustration with Wall Street?

Robin Hood CEO Vlad Tenev on his platform's role

in keeping markets accessible.

I think I really came to value how powerful the American financial system is and has been as a wealth

creation tool and that really motivated our mission which is to give everyone access to the financial system.

And Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan on the U.S. economic recovery.

We need to get this economy, which is about 90 some percent back to the way it is,

because if the U.S. economy doesn't grow the rest of the world's in trouble.

And how the business community can come together on the environment.

It's about defining stakeholder capitalism.

It's defining how capitalism actually can measure itself and hold itself as accountable. to our super-sized squawk pod. It's a lot today, but there's a lot going on. It all begins right now.

Good morning everybody. Welcome to Squawk Box here on C.M.C. I'm Becky Quick along with Joe

Cernan and Andrew Ross Sorkin, and if you take a look at the US equity

First up today the stock story trending on Wall Street Twitter, Reddit pretty much everywhere

GameStop the video game retailer's stock has rallied Reddit, volatility has pretty much everyone talking. So what's going on? First of all,

GameStop is for the average mall-going consumer, a dying brand. A relic of

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