Skinny Dipping at Low Tide: A Saga of Squeezed Shorts, Shattered Dreams, and Embarrassing Riches

A Confederacy of Dunces meets Liar's Poker in this rollicking roman à clef from inside PwnShop's "bored" room as the embattled company hobbles through an extraordinary short squeeze.

Why do good things happen to bad companies?

In early 2021, the stock value of PwnShop-a dead to rights bricks-and-mortar retailer disrupted by the digital downloading of video games-inexplicably ballooned overnight. While much has been written about the mechanics of the meme stock short squeezes, no one has yet ...