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Robinhood and the trading halt
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- 0:00Robinhood switched off the buy button,
- 0:01and Congress dragged its founder in to
- 0:03explain himself.
- 0:05January 2021, [music]
- 0:07a message board called Wall Street Bets
- 0:09noticed that hedge funds had shorted
- 0:10[music] GameStop harder than the stock
- 0:12existed. Millions of small traders piled
- 0:14in. [music] The price went up more than
- 0:1620 times in a month. On the 28th,
- 0:19Robinhood [music] blocked its customers
- 0:20from buying. Sell only. The app built on
- 0:23democratizing finance [music] had taken
- 0:25the trade away from the people using it.
- 0:27Vlad Tenev said it was a deposit
- 0:29requirement [music] from the clearing
- 0:30house. Nobody believed him. Three weeks
- 0:32later, he sat for 5 hours in front of
- 0:34the House Financial [music] Services
- 0:36Committee. He apologized. He denied
- 0:38colluding with the funds on the other
- 0:39side. [music]
- 0:40For about a week, he was the most hated
- 0:42man in American retail investing. Five
- 0:45months after that hearing, Robinhood
- 0:46went public [music] at $29 billion.
- 0:49Today, it is worth $110 billion, 13
- 0:52times GameStop.
- 0:54Follow Vibe Economics for more.
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