What’s really behind the GameStop revolution – With insights from The Wall Street Journal

'This was the week when a bunch of amateur traders made Wall Street’s finest look like idiots', says Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal.
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Judging by the limited coverage in SA's local popular press, perhaps the tyranny of geography is why many South Africans completely missed last week's high drama on Wall Street. Indeed, even the thousands who delighted in a 60% surge in JSE-listed Steinhoff's share price had little clue that a mugging of SA short sellers by the Reddit Mob caused it. The bigger story matters because this is a democratising of share trading decade in the making. Here's the inimitable author of The Intelligent Investor column for our partners at The Wall Street Journal. – Alec Hogg

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