Washington Watch: Gensler’s meme-stock reforms are meant to help retail traders. Some investor protection advocates aren’t so sure.

The meme-stock frenzy of 2021 focused the public’s attention on market structure with unprecedented intensity.

Flush with COVID stimulus funds and hemmed indoors by pandemic restrictions, Americans took advantage of no-commission trading services like Robinhood HOOD to gobble up high-flying stocks made famous on social media.

It was a wild…

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