The Globe and Mail Matt Phillips and Kate Kelly The New York Times Bookmark
The GameStop saga was a David-versus-Goliath story pitting small traders against big hedge funds and a cautionary tale about what happens when fast-moving Silicon Valley collides with the heavily regulated world of Wall Street.
Among its ensemble cast is one of the finance world’s most influential and perhaps least visible figures, Chicago billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin.
And when the House Financial Services Committee meets Thursday to question key players in the GameStop madness, Griffin will be asked about the two distinct roles his companies played in a two-week trading frenzy that created and destroyed billions of dollars in wealth.