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Sean Monahan
Jun 04, 2021
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The first half of 2021 was the year retail investing went mainstream. You can chalk it up to a couple convergent trends.

  1. The death of pop culture meant there were no longer very many water cooler moments for people to engage in low intensity banter around. Streaming seemed like it might fill the gap—but increasingly they are nostalgia time machines figh…

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