Is GME the Forbearer of the Market Crashing?
The Reddit post titled “Are we Headed Toward a Hype-Induced Market Crash?” written by an anonymous user has predicted a crash of untold proportions. The author wrote a summary which I will include but I suggest reading the whole article to get a deeper understanding of why they believe this, and the evidence that they provided. Here’s the summary: An ongoing battle between retail investors on reddit speculating on GameStop stock (and other “meme stocks”) and malicious hedge funds who are manipulating the stock market using counterfeit shares is about to come to a climax and uncoil a tightly wound spring of debt, fraud, and corruption. The situation appears so dire that the mechanisms in place to control the debt that the malicious hedge funds have accumulated, should they default (get margin called), are not adequate and are about to fail. The government has taken notice and is signaling that they are about to close the loophole that allows for counterfeit shares and enforce the rules