Can You Blame Millennials for Embracing 'Meme' Stocks?

Over the past two and half years, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed gaps in the U.S. healthcare system that were temporarily addressed by emergency relief efforts of the federal government. The Trump administration developed several vaccines, and the succeeding Biden government made testing widely available and rolled out a far-reaching vaccination campaign. Nevertheless, Americans experienced insecurity differently due to systemic economic and political inequalities, many of which were exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic.