pitney bowes and amd rallying. everyone is getting a little bit of love online. all this market hubris comes as the u.s. economy sees rising rates and global covid cases hit one million. we will start on the market side of the story. gamestop remains an epic center of this mania. joe: an extraordinary day, you mentioned a huge move, up 90% at the end. and of course today was the day that all the billionaires felt they had to act cool and participate in the move early in the morning. one guy bought calls in the morning and that set the action going. and then you add elon musk, and today was kind of a watershed day. romaine: we'll talk a little more about this. i want to draw our attention to the fight to get more vaccines out. getting headlines at the biden administration intends to order 100 million more doses of each the pfizer and moderna vaccine. an effort to speed up shipments to states. so they will purchase 100 million each from the two main vaccine companies. joe: for more on retail mania, let's bring in brandon, the author of a great piece this week on th