After what happened to $GME, expect retail trading to be clamped down on hard. It’s already started by way of the Discord forum the Gamestop traders were using being banned for “hate speech.” But these days “hate speech” is just code for someone trawling through to find where some random user said something vaguely offensive anywhere and using that as a pretext to get rid of speech or activity disliked for other reasons. I’ve personally seen it happen dozens of times on Reddit.

The finance boys (and they are nearly all boys) do not like it when the peons get stroppy and embarrass them and it won’t be permitted for long. And that’s especially true when the peons use the very tools the finance bros use to manipulate and run the market.

Only the rich and connected will be allowed to have that kind of power. A few score hedge fund bros have been humiliated, losing billions, and they will be able to change laws and regulations to make sure it doesn’t happen again.