A Fight Over GameStop's Soaring Stock Turns Ugly

The denizens of the Wall Street Bets subreddit helped push the flailing stock to dizzying heights—while a short-seller alleged an accompanying harassment campaign...
The denizens of the Wall Street Bets subreddit helped push the flailing stock to dizzying heights—while a short-seller alleged an accompanying harassment campaign...
Elon Musk and His Fight With the SEC For the SEC—which, like many enforcement agencies, enjoys making headlines with shows of force—investigating Elon Musk's tweet about taking Tesla private could be an easy win. Joshua Lott/Getty Images UPDATE: On Wednesday, August 15, the Fox Business Network reported that Tesla received subpoenas from the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The Wall Street Journal and New York Times later confirmed the reports.
For a company working its way into an industry that specializes in annihilating newcomers, Tesla has proven remarkably persistent. It has dodged bankruptcy, built an enormous fan base, and rolled out a series of terrific automobiles that made electric cars cool...
Much of Reddit, the eleventh biggest site on the American Internet, briefly went dark this summer. Now its co-founder is back to bring it into the light. The post Inside Reddit’s Plan to Recover From Its Epic Meltdown appeared first on WIRED...
The SEC has adopted a rule that requires public companies to publish the ratio of their CEOs’ pay to employees’ median pay, a move that will undoubtedly spur lots of uncomfortable conversations about the ever-growing compensation gap in the US. Fifty years ago, the ratio of CEO-to-worker pay was around 20-to-1, according to the Economic Policy Institute. In 2013, it was 295.1-to-1. This rule is a potential step toward containing the further growth of that gulf...