Money Talks

The GameStop Fiasco Proves We’re in a ‘Meme Stock’ Bubble

What the new dynamic between Redditors and Wall Street reveals about the stock market in 2021

James Surowiecki

Published in

Marker

6 min readJan 26, 2021

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Money Talks is a column that explores what happens when business, the economy, and culture collide.

James Surowiecki

Written by James Surowiecki

Writer for

Marker

I’m the author of The Wisdom of Crowds. I’ve been a business columnist for Slate and The New Yorker and written for a wide range of other publications.

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