Finance & economics | Robinhood and the merry mob
Robinhood takes its IPO to the masses
Our Wall Street correspondent participates
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Editor’s note (July 29th 2021): This article was updated after the first day of trading in Robinhood’s shares.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Robinhood and the merry mob”
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