Sport

It’s not Sandy Alderson’s fault, says Sandy Alderson

It’s really hanging one out there to call this Mets season particularly Mets-y. Every season in Queens has an element of the weird and inexplicable to it that only the Mets can conjure. They never settle quietly into the background. But this year, well, through Jacob deGrom’s injury and Javy Baez letting it slip that… […]

Tech

Don’t look now, but GameStop stock is approaching record highs again

Enlarge / Q-Bert can’t tell what the @!#?! is going on with GameStop stock, either… (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) GameStop’s stock price is approaching the historic highs it reached during the zenith of its meme-stock volatility in January. The stock’s steady increase over the last months comes as the company prepares to announce […]

Tech

GameStop FOMO inspires a new wave of crypto pump-and-dumps

Enlarge (credit: peng song / Getty) After the California Gold Rush, in 1870, two Kentucky swindlers whipped up a scheme to prey on thirsty financiers’ FOMO. They invented a diamond field out West. Investors sunk millions in today’s money into the scheme. All of it, of course, was for naught—a cautionary tale about believing anyone […]