April 28, 2022· 54 min

This Is What Happened to the Meme Stock Mania

Lily Francus

Orality

Model

50%

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(1,835 words)

M:29%

GuestLily Francus(3,936 words)

M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic30%

definitely, obviously, basically

Engagement74%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, now, like

Repetition100%

like (168x), know (148x), think (110x)

Parallelism87%

And I'm Tracy Alloway...., But, yeah, retail mania was th..., And it looks like if you zoom ...

Sound Patterns40%

41 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"

Formulaic Phrases6%

at the end of the day, you know what, i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging6%

could, may, maybe

Passive Voice7%

are broken, are priced, be laughed

Abstract Nouns20%

investment, information, volatility

Subordination5%

because, since, though

Sentence Length51%

Avg: 17.7 words/sentence

Word Complexity47%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers0%

Impersonal Style26%

756 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style100%

monthly, carefully, really

Description

Spring of 2021 was peak meme mania. GameStop was going nuts. AMC was going nuts. And in general, the big cohort of traders that entered the market in early 2020 was riding high. Since then, though, things have turned south. Volumes have dipped significantly. The memes came back to Earth, and a lot of the growth stocks that were riding high have gotten absolutely killed. So where do things stand now, and what happened to all the new traders? On this episode, we speak to Lily Francus, director of quantitative research at Moody's Analytics, as well as Kyla Scanlon, a popular financial commentator across social media (as well as the founder of a new financial education company) to understand what happened, what's changed, and how the last two years have permanently altered financial markets as we know them. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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