Episode 29 - Gamestonks, Robinhood and the Short Squeeze Fiasco

Big Bad Nonsense

Wherein Biscuit and Sock spend a lot of time riffing on Robinhood cause they suck. Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCfRGnVuzSc https://www.zdnet.com/article/robinhood-admits-to-storing-some-passwords-in-cleartext/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-15/robinhood-estimates-hackers-infiltrated-almost-2-000-accounts https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/05/some-robinhood-users-were-able-to-trade-with-unlimited-borrowed-money.html https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/robinhood-fixes-infinite-leverage-free-money-glitch-suspends-related-traders-2019-11-1028670689 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdYyZlqyc_Y https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-02/robinhood-suffers-online-outage-with-market-advancing-after-rout https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/robinhood-trading-app-major-outage-coronavirus-stock-selloff-options-crypto-2020-3-1028977054 Music: dizzy by Joakim Karud @joakimkarud Music promoted by Audio Library youtu.be/xseXbA2N6D0 New Tires - Silent Partner youtu.be/VnUxw2as2YQ I Dunno by Grapes ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library youtu.be/sNAE8-mB5lQ