2022-10-03

Upstart payment firm Wirecard wowed the financial industry with its runaway success — until a tenacious team of journalists exposed massive fraud.

Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.

After the squeeze, one Redditor and investing app Robinhood come under suspicion for their ties to the financial establishment.

The Redditors get more people on board with their plan, and GameStop stock starts flying up. But economic disaster could be on the horizon.

In 2020, a few plucky upstarts on Reddit spot an opportunity to get rich quick and stick it to Wall Street — by investing in a declining retail chain.