Gaming Wall Street (2022)

Original title

Gaming Wall St

Genre

documentary

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 2 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This two-episode series looks at the 2021 GameStop stock surge and who was behind it. It explains Wall Street practices like payment for order flow and naked short selling that the event brought to light.

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What happens

Gaming Wall St is a documentary television miniseries directed by Tobias Deml and narrated by Kieran Culkin. The two-episode series was released on March 3, 2022 on HBO Max. It explores the causes that led to the 2021 GameStop short squeeze, and the dark underbelly of Wall Street that the phenomenon unearthed: payment for order flow, creative accounting, abuses of the short selling mechanism like naked short selling, corporate overvoting and failures to deliver (FTDs). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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