Pinkerton: Just as Politics Has Come to GameStop, So GameStop Activism Will Come to Politics
Pinkerton: Just as Politics Has Come to GameStop, So GameStop Activism Will Come to Politics The GameStop Bubble and the Capitol Hill Show On January 1, the stock price of the bricks-and-mortar video game retailer GameStop (stock symbol: GME) was idling at less than $19 a share. Then the stock swelled into a giant bubble, becoming for a time the most traded stock on the planet and reaching, on January 28, an interday high of $483, an increase of more than 2,500 percent. Then the stock fell back to earth again, closing at a mere $40 on February 19. Along the way, the GameStop parabola rec...