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Re:AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains by sokoloff on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:44PM (#26017410)
If someone is going to ruin their life or retirement based proximately to posts in a Reddit forum, it’s very hard for me to assign root cause to the Reddit forum.

At most that’s the first or second “Why?” but there is surely a deeper issue.

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Re:AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains by quxpar on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:57PM (#26017589)
Many people were prudent blue-chip investors whose retirement was ruined by the housing crisis. There doesn't seem to be any 'smart money', just 'big money'.
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Re:AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains by sokoloff on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @02:36PM (#26018103)
Blue chips were down around 40% in 2008. If you left your money in, you were back even by 2012. Even if you were slowly withdrawing some starting in December 2008 (the worst of it), you were even by 2013.

I have no doubt there exists someone who was ruined by 2008, but most prudent blue chip investors were not.

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Re:AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains by 015a on Thursday February 04, 2021 @07:26PM (#26031505)
Who in here ever said they were trying to assign a root cause or place blame? I just said that they're icky.
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