Gabe Plotkin and the online mob’s unfinished business

A social-media pile-on nearly wiped out hedge funder Gabe Plotkin back in January. The fight is not over yet.

Gabe Plotkin
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Since the start of February, Gabe Plotkin’s Wall Street hedge fund, Melvin Capital, has put on 25% – a pretty respectable showing, says Hedge Buster. All the more so given its near-death experience during the GameStop trading furore in January, when Plotkin and his fund looked like being wiped out by what some have dubbed “the greatest short burn of history”.

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Her sole book to date, Stay or Go? (2016), rehearsed the arguments on both sides of the EU referendum.

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