coming up on this episode of the roundtable.

I became very, very wealthy, very fast in spirit,

in vitality.

I could feel the animal spirits surging through me at the exhibition of such powerful

libertarian energy, spontaneous people spontaneously organizing to create value in this world. The Welcome everyone once again to the Roundtable, the publishers and editors

podcast, podcast, yeah that's what it is of the American Mind here at the

Claremont Institute. I'm your host Ryan Williams, president the Claremont Institute, I'm your host, Ryan Williams, President of the Claremont Review Books.

I'm joined by Matthew Peterson right before he moves to Texas, but we'll occasionally have them here in the studio.

Nonetheless, founding editor of the American

Mind, Vice President of Education here,

Claremont James Polis, executive editor

of the American Mind.

Spencer Clavin, associate editor of the American Mind, and the Claremont Review

books now ensconced in Nashville, Tennessee, and David Barr, Senior Director of Communications

here, Claremont and Honorary Tammer forever.

So I just have one question to open this podcast with, which is, how rich did everyone get from buying their GameStop stocks?

No, it's been a wild few days in the new digital landscape in which we operate where a bunch of,

I would say it's a mix of savvy Robin Hood investors and trawlers and their various friends and fellow travelers on the

Reddit subthread, Wall Street Betts have driven a fairly well capitalized

hedge fund to lose a lot of money, I think north of 100% of their investment in shorting a

stock for a for a company that half of America probably didn't know existed, which is a storefront place called Game

Stop with, I forget how many, 5,000 locations nationwide, 1,000 I forget.

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