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In Defense of Hedge Funds and Short Selling: GameStop, Reddit, and Robinhood - Foundation for Economic Education
![The perfect storm ensued when Reddit-ors discovered that a hedge fund had taken a large short position in GameStop and collectively started buying up the stock causing its price to go up. – The perfect storm ensued when Reddit-ors discovered that a hedge fund had taken a large short position in GameStop and collectively started buying up the stock causing its price to go up. –](http://vedafinancial.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Screenshot_20210130-090753_1.jpg)
The perfect storm ensued when Reddit-ors discovered that a hedge fund had taken a large short position in GameStop and collectively started buying up the stock causing its price to go up. –
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