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Corbella: Facebook s very bad week might just wake us all up and save society

Licia Corbella: Facebook s very bad week might just wake us all up and save society

Robinhood s Big Gamble | The New Yorker

Cartoon by Pat Byrnes By that spring, Alex Kearns, a twenty-year-old student at the University of Nebraska, had been using Robinhood for about two years. The app had permitted him to trade options just months after he opened his account. Kearns grew up in Naperville, Illinois, with his sister and his parents. His father is an I.T. professional at a financial-services firm. The family was close. Kearns was known as an anxious but positive young man who played trombone in the high-school band, received a school-spirit award, and joined the R.O.T.C. at Nebraska, where he majored in business management. Kearns’s cousin-in-law Bill Brewster, a professional investor, told me that he’d spoken with Kearns that March. “He was happier than I’ve ever seen him,” Brewster said.

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