Remember when a ragtag army of  day traders totally f@cked over Wall Street? A quick refresher⁠ Melvin Capital thought it was being really clever shorting GameStop. It figured a brick-and mortar mall franchise was surely dead in the water. (Wrong!) All was going to plan until some crafty redditors caught wind and starting buying up shares like their lives depended on it. A ‘squeeze’ was afoot. The stock price soared and Melvin, having borrowed on shares at a much lower price, was left holding the bag. Wall Street Blues chronicles this tale from the perspective of the redditors, unraveling the perfect storm of events that enabled these audacious parvenues.