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BAES 141: How Did this Guy Just Crash the Market?

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James van Geelen, known on finance twitter as Citrini, has made a MASSIVE name for himself over the last few years. In fact, he has the most popular paid substack in the finance vertical. On Sunday, he put out a blog post that caused sheer panic to reverberate throughout the markets. It's insane. We'll explain what he was saying in the post, and the market's reaction.

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