THREAD: Do the people on Reddit's #WallStreetBets who are buying Gamestop, AMC, and other stocks have any legal liability to do so?
By buying up Gamestop and AMC stock, they caused the price to shoot way up in a short period of time.
So did they engage in "market manipulation," as some people on social media have claimed? Could they get in trouble with the SEC, which is "watching" the matter, or go to prison?
I've been discussing this with a friend who is a former SEC attorney, and this looks like something we've seen before.
Whether those people have liability turns on whether they make false or misleading statements.
If the argument is that the *trades themselves* are manipulation, that will be a very difficult claim to make.
Those claims are very challenging to make, and in this case, I don't see a viable claim **based solely on what the public knows now.**
But if this is really just a group of people who decided they want to buy a stock, it's not manipulation.
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Thanks to Dr. @nicolefv, I was able to interview him for an upcoming episode of the Idealcast! 🤯
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This model was created Dr. Ron Westrum, a widely-cited sociologist who studied the impact of culture on safety
Thanks to Dr. @nicolefv, I was able to interview him for an upcoming episode of the Idealcast! 🤯
It was a very heady experience, and while preparing to interview him, I was startled to discover how much work he's done in healthcare, aviation, spaceflight, but also innovation.
I've read 4+ of his papers, so I thought I was familiar with his work. (Here's one paper: https://t.co/7X00O67VgS)
I was startled to learn he has also studied in depth what enables innovation. He wrote a wonderful book "Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake"
Dr. Westrum writes about China Lake Research Labs: "its design and structure had one purpose: to foster technical creativity. It did; China Lake operated far outside the normal envelope... Sidewinder & others were "impossible" accomplishments,
I love this book because it describes traits of organizations that routinely create and maintain greatness: US space program (Mercury, Gemini, Apollo), US Naval Reactors, Toyota, Team of Teams, Tesla, the tech giants (Amazon, Google, Netflix, Google)