The Strange Story of Stonks and Gamestop
February 8, 2021
Hosted by Ted Gavin
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Episode Description
How did a sleepy retail store that sells video games see its stock price soar from near pennies per share to more than three hundred dollars a share? And what does a message board have to do with this? And how did a hedge fund lose almost half its value because of activist day traders? What the hell happened here? We walk to Bloomberg Law reporter Daniel Gill and Bloomberg Government reporter Megan Wilson about how this happened and what it all means.
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Ted Gavin
Ted Gavin is a turnaround specialist and understands corporate distress from all sides. He’s never been a big fan of business books and business shows. What he loves are war stories, and there are lessons to be learned from others’ interesting experiences and observations.
Ted is Founding Partner and Managing Director of Gavin/Solmonese LLC, a national boutique corporate turnaround, restructuring and litigation advisory firm. He was the 2018-2019 President of the American Bankruptcy Institute and is presently the ABI board’s Chair. Ted holds a Master of Dispute Resolution degree and a Master of Legal Studies degree from Pepperdine University School of Law, is a frequent expert witness in bankruptcy litigation and a practicing mediator. Ted has also developed expertise in lawyers’ professional ethics, helped amend a Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure, and formed some task forces, one of which, the ABI Veterans and Servicemembers’ Affairs Task Force, was instrumental in getting the HAVEN Act passed, helping disabled veterans who need a fresh start relief of chapter 7 bankruptcy.
Ted lives in Chilmark, Massachusetts on Martha’s Vineyard. He works wherever his firm’s clients need him to be. He’s a husband, father of two adult daughters, person to four rescue cats, and an okay rhythm guitarist and bassist.
Ted’s moonlighting job is being the rhythm guitarist for The Indubitable Equivalents, the house band of the American Bankruptcy Institute.
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