The contra case to this: Maybe brokerages are not just fuddy-duddy with respect to their marketing approaches. Maybe they are *also* insufficiently quick to react to the economic environment and perform their social purpose, which is getting people invested at rather low prices.
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I think you could believe something like that. It's internally consistent. Robinhood has probably accelerated timeline of one major win for consumers. And you could therefore be proud of e.g. working at Robinhood in a way that you would not be proud of working at e.g. MGM.
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That said, have to say this: as someone who is (in less socially distanced times) a happy customer of MGM, I have no illusions about whether that enterprise is a casino or a financial services provider, despite its substantial investment in providing financial services.
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Anyhow, what would a real money online gaming company be thinking about the current state of the world: "Sweet! Competing entertainment options are getting crushed. MGM is literally closed. Our customers are stuck at home and some have increased risk appetite."
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What would a discount brokerage be thinking about the current state of the world: "#%()#% me (#%))#% me (#%)%#( me net interest margin drives this business and that relies on taking customer deposits and investing them almost risklessly. That word 'almost' is a scary word now!"
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Fun fact about 2008: e*Trade came about *this* close to going bankrupt because it got a little deeper than every other discount brokerage in that notably safe place to park customers' money: home mortgages.
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And so if you're CEO at a discount brokerage right now you're probably less enjoying the massive spike in new account signups (worth ~nothing to you today, nature of the model right) and instead paying *very careful attention* to your daily update on treasury risk.
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For more about discount brokerages, written in the distant mists of history (a year ago) where they actually charged for the product but at a discount: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/6/26/how-brokerages-make-money/ …
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That post was epic. Tangentially, I recall a certain someone making a convincing argument against dating posts. While posts no longer show the dates, your blog URLs are in betrayal
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I've taken steps to deemphasize the dates (you can still find them) but haven't ripped up my URL structure yet, mostly out of worrying what happens to the back catalog. I expect to do it eventually. Ironically my next essay will likely be very, very timeline sensitive.
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So much so that I think I'm going to need to make an edit to my site generator to support, conceptually, "http://post.date _should_be_super_prominent: true"
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Can't wait to read it. I'm still using a few spare c5.96xxlarge machines I had lying around to reverse the last SHA512 hash tweets you posted. 912,173 days to go..
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