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Does GameStop Signal the End of Short Selling as We Know It?
Kellogg Insight
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Depending on your view, this week’s dramatic GameStop short squeeze is either comeuppance for giant Wall Street hedge funds, which finally find themselves on the losing end of the risky bets that have made them a fortune over the years, or evidence of a dangerously frothy market, one that must be tamed—perhaps by regulation—before too many people get hurt.
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2021
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Fearon, Scott, Robert Korajczyk. 2021. Does GameStop Signal the End of Short Selling as We Know It?. Kellogg Insight.