The stock market wars: US lawmaker Ocasio-Cortez breaks it down

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A chat with U.S. Democratic lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew more than a million viewers overnight to a website best-known for video game ...

WASHINGTON: A chat with U.S. Democratic lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew more than a million viewers overnight to a website best-known for video game players, where she dissected this week's headline-grabbing battle between Reddit online traders and hedge funds.

A member of the House's powerful Financial Services committee, Ocasio-Cortez has a Twitch channel with one million followers and promoted the Thursday broadcast to her 12 million followers on Twitter. Ocasio-Cortez hosted Alexis Goldstein, a former Wall Street employee who now pushes for financial reform; Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit ; and video blogger The Stock Guy. They discussed the intricacies of option trading and the complicated role hedge funds play in markets.The U.S. government has struggled to educate the general public about the risks of stock trading.

 

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