{"id":108382,"date":"2021-01-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meme-lords-just-figured-out-how-to-take-back-the-billions-wall-street-made-profiting-off-lockdowns-the-washington-standard\/"},"modified":"2021-01-29T09:43:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T14:43:40","slug":"meme-lords-just-figured-out-how-to-take-back-the-billions-wall-street-made-profiting-off-lockdowns-the-washington-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meme-lords-just-figured-out-how-to-take-back-the-billions-wall-street-made-profiting-off-lockdowns-the-washington-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Meme Lords Just Figured Out How To Take Back The Billions Wall Street Made Profiting Off Lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmeme-lords-just-figured-out-how-to-take-back-the-billions-wall-street-made-profiting-off-lockdowns-the-washington-standard%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=108382&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"vw-post-categories\"><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">Meme Lords Just Figured Out How To Take Back The Billions Wall Street Made Profiting Off Lockdowns<\/h1>\n<div>\n<p>Matt Agorist 2021-01-29<\/p>\n<div class=\"vw-post-meta vw-post-meta-large\">\n<p><a class=\"\" title=\"Meme Lords Just Figured Out How To Take Back The Billions Wall Street Made Profiting Off Lockdowns\" href=\"https:\/\/thewashingtonstandard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/war-on-wallstreet-660x330-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-vw_two_third_thumbnail_no_crop wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/thewashingtonstandard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/war-on-wallstreet-660x330-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"vw-post-content clearfix\">\n<div class=\"vw-before-post-content\">\n<div class=\"heateorSssClear\">\n<div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing\">\n<div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_title c2\">\n<div class=\"heateorSssClear\">\n<p>Make no mistake, the government\u2019s reaction to COVID-19 \u2014 shutting down business, forcing people to state home, all the while granting monopolies to massive chains like Amazon, Walmart, etc. \u2014 has decimated the middle class and pushed the already-struggling poor that much deeper into despair. But you won\u2019t see the owners of those monopolies complaining as they have seen their wealth soar to unprecedented highs.<\/p>\n<p>As the rest of the country struggles to pay their mortgages, has their businesses shut down, and descends into poverty, COVID-19 for the super rich has been a record setting windfall. Four of the most controversial billionaires on the planet, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page have seen their wealth increase by hundreds of billions in just the last 10 months.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4 c8\"><\/div>\n<p>While these big movers receive constant coverage in the media, another group of billionaires on Wall Street were making insane profits off of the government-mandated shutdowns too. To be clear, making profit is a fantastic thing. Free trade among individuals is grand and creating excess wealth while doing so is a marvel of capitalism. But hedge funds don\u2019t exactly play in a \u201cfree\u201d market. They exist in a highly controlled market which allows them to rig the game and take in billions based on economic suffering.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1 c9\">\n<p>The nefarious companies have a monopoly within the mainstream media and are able to go on TV or push an article out online and quite literally manipulate the market in their favor. During the pandemic, many of these hedge funds were going on TV and putting out information that caused some of the struggling companies\u2019 stock prices to plummet. This is done on purpose so the hedge funds can them buy back the stock at a lower price through a process known as short selling.<\/p>\n<p>In simple terms, short selling entails taking a bearish position in the market, hoping to profit from a security whose price loses value. But these hedge funds don\u2019t just \u201chope\u201d that these stocks lose value, they use their presence in the mainstream media and their government connections to ensure it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2 c9\">\n<p>On top of the thousands of non-publicly traded companies that went out of business during the lockdowns, the pandemic also hurt large companies like Gamestop and AMC and their stock prices fell as a result. But many of these hedge fund \u201cexperts\u201d would drive the price down even further by going on TV and telling people to short it, thereby ensuring billions in profit from selling their positions for insane profits.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c11\"><a class=\"u5fc0eb5ed35a6403080d056492283de9\" href=\"https:\/\/thewashingtonstandard.com\/if-the-federal-reserve-cuts-interest-rates-now-it-will-be-an-admission-that-a-recession-is-coming\">TRENDING:\u00a0 If The Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rates Now, It Will Be An Admission That A Recession Is Coming<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This was the rigged game that has paid for private jets of slime balls on Wall Street, whose job description entails betting (in a casino they own) that businesses will fail, and then ensuring their failure. Ah, but thanks to the free exchange of ideas on the internet, the jig is up and the world is learning about the sham that is the rigged system of hedge funds and their insidious relationship with government and media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>When Wall St tycoons make huge bets that flop, they have the Federal Government they own and control come bail them out with taxpayer money.<\/p>\n<p>When their short sell gamble goes bad, they demand the SEC step in &amp; punish those who won and insist government power be used to stop it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1354433571839234048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right now, buying Gamestop and AMC has blown up in a meme; a meme that started on Reddit, in a group who focused on buying it,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/wallstreetbets\/\">r\/WallStreetBets.<\/a>\u00a0The post below, from this subreddit, explains the battle being waged on the internet right now that may forever change the future of Wall Street.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is a big moment. A tug of war between tradition and the future.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge fund managers live in the past, and continue to look down upon the retail investors. They truly believe that we, the average retail investors, don\u2019t know anything about finances or the market (which may be true), and we\u2019re just gambling our money away.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t know any better. WE NEED HEDGE FUND MANAGERS TO TELL US WHAT TO DO! SAVE US!<\/p>\n<p>This is the world they want to live in. This was the past.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that scene from the Sopranos, where Tony\u2019s wife calls to buy 5000 shares of Webonics, after she was manipulated emotionally to so? Institutions and hedge funds want us to be stuck in that world.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re scared of the future.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re scared because, so much information is available for free now. There\u2019s no more fees for trading. We have large communities that discuss stocks and trading openly.<\/p>\n<p>We can think and make decisions for ourselves, which scares the F*CK out of old school institutions and hedge funds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Essentially, this group turned the rigged hedge fund game on its head by driving up the price of stocks on the short positions held by the hedge funds. This forced the hedge funds to have to sell their short options for a massive loss \u2014 billions of dollars \u2014 because they were trying to force the stock price down and memelords on Reddit drove it up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c11\"><a class=\"uea952a95cf4630b29fb0edb56d2fbfbb\" href=\"https:\/\/thewashingtonstandard.com\/collapsing-pensions-bring-hell-america\">TRENDING:\u00a0 Collapsing Pensions Are \u201cAbout to Bring Hell to America\u201d<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This move gutted major hedge fund companies and enriched countless regular folks who participated in the meme. Some of the stories of the winners were heartwarming, allowing them to pay for medical procedures for family and vet bills for pets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-149369 tie-appear\" src=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/sfadsf.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2824\" height=\"1658\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-149370 tie-appear\" src=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ssssf.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2931\" height=\"1516\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"freethoughtproject_leaderboard_mid\" class=\"c12\">\n<p>The effect of this coordinated effort is akin to Robinhood taking their money back from the rich as the memelords use the fixed system to attack the fixed system \u2014 and won. The Occupy Wall Street movement lasted months and in the end had very little effect on anything. The banks still get bailed out and hedge funds still profit from manipulating the market. January 26 and the days following have marked a turning point in this paradigm. It is the day the people beat the money changers at their own game.<\/p>\n<p>Rest assured, however, that hedge funds losing billions of dollars to thousands of Redditors has the establishment on the offensive. Those who profited from this historical moment will be demonized in the mainstream as the hedge funds play victim. In fact, it has already begun.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>What an absolutely extraordinary coincidence of timing that Discord happened to decide the r\/Wall Streetbets sub-reddit had too much \u201chate speech\u201d to tolerate on the same day hedge fund billionaires declared them a huge threat for the crime of winning at their expense! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qoNXa5zVOZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/qoNXa5zVOZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1354593404043354113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, trading was suspended on multiple apps Thursday morning as the hedge funds assert their control back over the market.<\/p>\n<p>In this war of Wall Street, the tone has changed from occupy Wall Street to liquidate Wall Street and this can be a very powerful statement. It is important to stay vigilant and also remember that you can lose whatever you invest.<\/p>\n<p>Article posted with permission from <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/memelords-just-figured-out-how-to-take-back-the-billions-wall-street-made-profiting-off-lockdowns\/\">Matt Agorist<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcms_author-info\">\n<div class=\"heateorSssClear\">\n<div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing\">\n<div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_title c2\">\n<div class=\"heateorSssClear\">\n<div class=\"vw-after-post-content\">\n<div id=\"ld-9916-2787\">\n<div id=\"ld-5476-3400\">\n<div class=\"vw-related-posts vw-related-posts-style-default\">\n<div class=\"vw-post-loop vw-post-loop-small-top-thumbnail vw-post-loop-small-top-thumbnail-2 vw-post-loop-col-2 row col-sm-12 vw-block-grid vw-block-grid-xs-2 vw-block-grid-md-4\">\n<div class=\"vw-block-grid-item vw-post-box vw-post-style-small-top-thumbnail clearfix vw-post-format-standard\">\n<div class=\"vw-block-grid-item vw-post-box vw-post-style-small-top-thumbnail clearfix vw-post-format-standard\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meme Lords Just Figured Out How To Take Back The Billions Wall Street Made Profiting Off Lockdowns Matt Agorist 2021-01-29 Make no mistake, the government\u2019s reaction to COVID-19 \u2014 shutting down business, forcing people to state home, all the while granting monopolies to massive chains like Amazon, Walmart, etc. \u2014 has decimated the middle class &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3702,3721,3719,3718,3716,3722],"class_list":["post-108382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-back","tag-figured","tag-just","tag-lords","tag-meme","tag-take"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}