NPR. This is the indicator from planet money. I'm Darren Woods and I'm Whelan

Wong. If you've seen the news coming on a Wall Street over the last couple of

months you might have felt a keen sense of deja vu.

Roaring Kitty is back.

Can you all hear me right now?

I kind of forget how to do this.

Shares of game stock soaring today.

At one point jumping 110% it's reminiscent.

It's like we're back in 2021 at the height of the meme stock frenzy.

You know the Wall Street Betts forums on Reddit and these young day traders gleefully offending financial markets.

Oh yes, and you might remember Roaring Kitty, aka Keith Gill, aka one of the biggest figures during the

Game Stop mania.

He went quiet for a few years,

now he has recently resurfaced,

but it turns out lots of amateur investors

who followed him into the markets never left.

That is according to financial journalist Nathaniel Popper.

He's the author of a new book called The Trolls of Wall Street,

how the outcasts and insurgents are hacking the markets.

My book is basically about how we got this new generation of mostly young men who are obsessed with the markets and trading and money and I was just

fascinated by the question of where this whole new generation of trading came

from and what it means.

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