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The meme stock mania is now a movie. Here’s what has happened to GameStop and AMC
As shares of GameStop start to climb in late 2020 and the early days 2021, in the midst of the pandemic, characters in the new movie “Dumb Money” encourage their friends to sell. There’s Pete Davidson, playing the brother of Paul Dano’s Keith Gill, aka Roaring Kitty, telling the burgeoning YouTube star to cash out and buy a Ferrari. There’s Anthony Ramos’ Marcus, a GameStop cashier, being lectured by his parents that this stock trading thing isn’t real. And there’s America Ferrera’s Jenny, a nurse and single mom, whose coworker tells her that taking financial advice from a guy in a headband is not ... (full story)