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28 Jan, 6 tweets, 2 min read
This is insane. Robinhood is not merely raising margin requirements, but actually preventing its users from buying Gamestop, AMC, and others.

The system is putting its thumb on the scales to stop ordinary people from hurting the hedge fund shorts.

blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/28…
Merrill Lynch is also specifically banning buying $GME and $AMC while still allowing sales. They are even cancelling open orders that were already successfully placed in the past:
Interactive Brokers is also only allowing selling:
TD Ameritrade, Charles Schwab, and Webull have also gone to "liquidation only" on these stocks.

nytimes.com/2021/01/28/bus…
The coordination on these moves is stunning.

Allowing people to sell but not to buy is the definition of market manipulation.
A large number of major monthly options contracts close tomorrow. This may be relevant.

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The MAGA invasion of the US Capitol recalls similar events in Japan - the 1960 Anpo protests also saw an invasion of the National Diet and one woman killed.

I wrote a whole book on this!

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Japanese terms for rude things to do with your chopsticks!

If it's something rude you can do with a pair of chopsticks, Japanese has a special term for it.

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The 2025 Osaka world's fair logo had 5 finalists. Option E was the winner.

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I wish articles like this would also point out that the Republicans have actively been trying to destroy the Postal Service for decades, and directly caused its recent woes.

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