Short Selling on Trial & Wordle Gets a Game Show
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Good morning, Brew Daily Show. I'm Neil Freiman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, why are young people so much more pessimistic about jobs than boomers?
Then, the New York Times is launching a Wordle game show. It's Tuesday, May 12th. Let's ride. Let's ride.
Good morning and happy Tuesday. Recess must be protected at all costs. And that's not just me saying it because I happen to dominate at Foursquare. A leading pediatrics group, the American Academy of Pediatrics, issued their first new guidance on recess in 13 years, urging schools to maintain unstructured time at school. The group stressed that recess is critical for kids' growth physically, emotionally, and socially, but warned that recess time has been declining across America to prioritize test scores. Toby, what was your game at recess?
I was a big freeze tag guy, obviously. But famously, Neil, when he was on Kids Jeopardy, yes, this is a real thing, he was introduced by saying his favorite class was recess. So I know this hits very close to home for you. The only one I could get an A in. I am glad that the pediatricians are on it, though, because recess time is shrinking, like you mentioned. Since the mid-2000s, around 40% of school districts have reduced or eliminated it, according to data from Springboard to Active Schools and the CDC. Older kids, too, generally get less time than younger ones, which brings me to my final point. Give adults recess, too. I would dominate some freeze tag. I would dominate you in Foursquare, too, right now.
Let's just have a break in the middle of the day.
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One of Wall Street's most famous short sellers is on trial this week, and the verdict could decide not just whether one man spends the next 25 years in prison... but if activist short sellers as a whole are allowed to keep doing what they do. Andrew Left is the founder of Citron Research, a short selling shop named after the lemons of the stock market. Over the last two decades, he's targeted more than 50 companies, most famously, Valent Pharmaceuticals, but also names like GameStop, American Airlines, and Nvidia. Left's playbook is as follows. Pick a company he thinks is overvalued or fraudulent, publish a deliberately attention-grabbing Citron report, laying out the case against it, amplify it on social media, and take a position against the stock, hoping it will fall after everyone else reads what he wrote.
Prosecutors call it a kind of reverse pump and dump. They say that Left used his reads to make at least $16 million by misrepresenting what he actually held in his portfolio while quietly cutting deals with hedge funds on the side, in timing it all around market-moving posts and TV appearances. Short sellers have long been a thorn in the side of corporate America, and as Georgetown's James Angle puts it, the SEC would, quote, love to have a short seller's scalp to show they take this seriously.
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