• kreskin@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Participating in and profiting from a pump and dump scheme is the new American dream.

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      I think the assumption was that the shortened window to list it in the NASDAQ 100 in 15 days meant that it would be bouyed by 401k money. I don’t think early investors planned to be able to pump and dump so effectively that US retirement savings as a whole weren’t enough to keep it up.