If one key indicator is to be trusted, the U.S. economy may be headed either for choppy waters or over a cliff, and the fallout for stocks may be enormous.
While there is no doubt that the forces of money supply creation and consequently inflation drive nominal prices higher over the long-term, the short-term is less easy to forecast with the same degree of accuracy.
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A joke went viral recently when a comedian wrote a skit about two people arguing over the merits of the US Dollar and Bitcoin respectively. Had you invested $10,000 in Bitcoin in 2010, you would have almost $100 million now, according to the skit writer. If you left your $10,000 in fiat currency you would have about $8,500.
When you study business for a while, certain metrics just turn out to be much more important than others. The cost to acquire customers is a key focus for many new business owners but their retention is what those who have been around the block focus on.
If you can acquire customers at the same price as the competition but sell them into many other products and services,
Imagine I hold up $100 and offer it to you for $95, would you take the deal? At face value it’s a sure bet, but you would probably be wondering what the catch is? Is the Benjamin Franklin note real or fake? Are you about to make $5 or lose $95? Well, that’s the same trade-off to make when investing in a company that trades below cash value,
Silicon Valley darling, Salesforce, saw its stock fall 16% following last night’s fiscal Q1 2025 earnings report. Growth moderated to an 11% year-over-year increase, which was the lower end of the guidance and that was enough to spook investors.
Yet the woes continued when full-year revenue guidance of $37.7 billion to $38 billion was reported because it reflected a growth projection of just 8% to 9%.
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Just a couple of months ago, the consensus view was that an Ethereum ETF would not be approved. At the time, the price of Bitcoin diverged materially from that of Ether.
But the breadcrumbs were pointing to a different outcome. It was clear that Wall Street was favoring Ethereum because of its smart contracts and flexible architecture;
What company in the United States generates revenues and profits that rivals big tech companies but is valued at less than half of most of them? The answer turns out to be Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.
Last quarter alone, Berkshire Hathaway generated an astonishing $89 billion in revenues and reported $17 billion in operating income.
Among the many rules of business is be careful in whose playground you are competing. Gaming companies learned this the hard way a few years ago when they built their businesses on top of the Facebook platform. So too did media companies like PopSugar. When Facebook decided to focus more on surfacing individual posts over corporate ones,
When it comes to government relying on AI companies, Palantir seems to attract most investor attention and with good reason too.
Palantir is famous for big data analytics and analyzing massive amounts of information to make informed insights that can help government primarily, and increasingly commercial enterprises in sectors ranging from healthcare to finance.
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When Laszlo Hanyecz forked over 10,000 bitcoin in exchange for 2 Papa John pizzas fourteen years ago, he couldn’t possibly have imagined what the future would hold. Today, those bitcoin would collectively be worth close to $700,000,000. And if the current halving cycle echoes history, there is a good chance they will be worth a cool $1 billion in the not too distant future.
