Gaming Wall St

If you have a brain, pass. The first 15 minutes is filler, not getting into the actual story at all. Garbage. Watch Sesame Street instead. The actors are more mature.

Jokes aside, great Documentary!

We need as much noise and attention on this Mess of a stock market.

This was extremely well made, and I will continue to follow these creators, easiest 10/10 of my life.

This show ponders various questions, yet rarely arrives at an answer. Instead, it challenges us to (1) raise awareness, (2) learn the system, and (3) follow this hbomax link for more info.

How did Melvin Capital offload its short position in Gamestop (GME)? Was Citadel colluding with Melvin Capital and Robinhood to limit their losses and/or to profit from GME's increase? Was naked short selling practiced in the sale of GME?

Kieran Culkin, infrequent narrator, leaves us with these parting words: "It's a new generation... our generation... we won't sit on the sidelines any longer. If there's one thing the Gamestop phenomenon taught us, it's that we do have a voice, and it's time we start using it."

Cool. Thanks Kieran.

Here's my voice then: Is it a broken system? Yes.

Will it break again? Yes.

Solution?

Hmmmm.....

Wow. The first episode is an introduction to explaining stock trading and introduces the average person to the corruption behind the scene - but the second episode is edge of your seat.

I couldn't stop watching the second episode. It rips the cover off the hidden system and brings into the light the crimes that is integral to the secretive American system of financial greed that is Wall Street.

Don't miss this flashlight into the rotten underbelly of capitalist criminality.

This documentary is an eye opener. It explains complicated issues with the American financial system (with broader implications world-wide) in layman terms.

This documentary can't offer all the answers, not in a couple of hours, and not when trading stock is not fully regulated. It presents a corner case of a few people who held on to their GameStop shares against heavy odds, which exposed a flaw in the system, which is selling shares that do not exist. Apparently, this is done daily, and consistently, by all players.

The documentary goes on to say that the root cause of this problem is that corporations only suffer "nuisance" fines when found guilty, instead of their corporate leaders "suffering the sting", and going to jail.

The vast majority of Americans have suffered the consequences of a corrupt, scamming, unfair financial system. Understanding the issue is only the first step, and this documentary does a good job presenting one example of corporate greed.