Right now we are living through some of the most tumultuous political times our country has ever known.

I'm David Remnick, and each week on the New Yorker Radio Hour, I'll try to make sense of what's happening,

alongside politicians and thinkers like Cory Booker, Nancy Pelosi, Liz Cheney, Tim Walts,

Katanji Brown Jackson, Newt Gingrich, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Charlemagne the God,

and so many more. That's all in the New Yorker Radio Hour, wherever you listen to podcasts.

Coming up on the program today, a short Wall Street tutorial. We'll talk factories and we'll talk price caps and we will pour

one out for Florida oranges. From American public media, this is Marketplace.

In Los Angeles, I'm Colin Rizdahl.

It is Thursday.

Today, this one is the 23rd of April.

Good, as it always is, to have you along, everybody.

Wall Street was in a, yeah, maybe war is not so great mood today.

Equities fell, the price action, as traders like to say, mostly to the downside.

The bigger picture we will do at that spot in the program where we always do the bigger picture, but we begin today with a single company and its roller coaster of a month.

Avis shares were up sevenfold the past 30 days, and they had kept on going up until yesterday.

On this Thursday, ticker symbol, car, get it, Avis, car, C-A-R,airs down 48 percent, the worst day Avis has had in the markets in

28 years. The phrase short squeeze is what you're looking for. Marketplace's Kelly Wells

has today's explainer. Short squeezes start because investors bet on a stock doing poorly,

also known as taking a short position. Here's an

example. For whatever reason, I decide that I think Avis is overpriced. And I'm looking for a way to

make money off of this. In this example, Paul Shea of Bates College will borrow a bunch of shares

of Avis stock, sell them while they're overpriced, and then when the price falls, he'll buy them back up and

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