Markets
Retail Traders Grow Up
The meme-stock cohort did not disappear when the fever broke. It aged into the most financially engaged retail generation in decades, with the account balances to show it.
Sunday, September 6th, 2026
The meme-stock cohort did not disappear when the fever broke. It aged into the most financially engaged retail generation in decades, with the account balances to show it.
After a long drought, public listings are returning in cautious single file. The companies going first are teaching everyone else the new rules.
After a decade in which payouts read as an admission of exhausted ambition, companies and investors have rediscovered the discipline of cash returned.