Deep Background with Noah Feldman

GameStop Is Just The Beginning

Alexis Goldstein, a former Wall Street business analyst and senior policy analyst at Americans for Financial Reform, discusses why GameStop’s wild ride is not actually a David vs. Goliath story. She discusses the underlying conditions revealed by the GameStop saga, and imagines alternative ways to regulate the markets.  Alexis Goldstein writes about the financial markets in her popular newsletter, <a href="https://marketsweekly.ghost.io/author/alexis/">Markets Weekly. </a>Her most recent op-ed, “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/opinion/gamestop-biden-wall-street-reddit.html">The Trouble With GameStop Is That the House Still Wins</a>” was published in The New York Times. Learn more about your ad-choices at <a href="https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com">https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Behind every news headline, there’s another, deeper story. It’s a story about power. In Deep Background, Harvard Law School professor and Bloomberg View columnist Noah Feldman will bring together a cross-section of expert guests to explore the historical, scientific, legal, and cultural context that help us understand what’s really going on behind the biggest stories in the news.iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.