Raymond Liu
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1,052 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Aug
Raymond Liu’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Um, but you can definitely trace this back into the mean stock.
Era days of 2020 and 2021, where traders essentially were able to band together and democratize trading and take power away from Wall Street and sort of upsetting the system.
And that's because, you know, you there's all these converging factors and they're dealing with the affordability issue, I I would gather.
Many are looking at the tea leaves and and sort of realizing: hey, you know, the old conventional way of
Investing and working up the corporate ladder, saving for retirement, isn't necessarily going to get them the white picket fence, big house, backyard, et cetera, et cetera.
So why not go big or go home, right?
Like why don't I just put this money and try to one up and leapfrog my chances?
The whole gamification of trading and risky bets is a response to the state of the US economy for the for the um average young American.
American, where you know, wealth i inequality is worsening, everybody's saying AI is going to like take over the jobs.
So there, you know, there's that stress that they have to deal with.
You know, so a simple index fund isn't necessarily going to be enough when you're dealing with high prices and high inflation and economic uncertainty.
Yeah, and then then you have the whole social media angle from it where Gen Z gets most of their financial news on social media.
Uh, in fact, going from 45% in 2024 and to 60% in 2026, they're they're seeing others win big on it, right?
And so they're posting and people are posting it online, they're seeing it on their feeds, and they're going like, Hey, that that could be me, influencers who, you know, see this and they're
like, oh, this is my surefire way to win big in prediction markets or on sports betting.
So everyone believes that their strategies the way to to to to win big.
Like, in fact, there was a TikTok ad that Calci showed of a a young woman who had this text on screen where it basically said, I was able to pay off my rent through Calci winnings.
And then if you remember, there was the Wall Street Journal investigative piece where Polymarket used these fake ads that spread across social media that sort of could try to convince people that they could win big on on their on prediction markets.
So a lot of folks, a lot of
Okay, well, let's move on.
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