GameStop venturing into the world of crypto is a wild bet

I could never get my head around the bull case for GameStop, the original meme stock, that has largely defied the odds of a floundering business model and hasn't yet crashed and burned like nearly all the others. Last week, looking to extend this winning streak, it became a hedge fund, issuing bonds to buy crypto. In the past, it would have done just that, but this time investors smelled some desperation. Bitcoin might be the most popular digital coin, but it's also highly volatile; at $84,000 it's well off ...