A Wealth of Common Sense. Investor, author, and host of Animal Spirits podcast, focuses on simplifying finance for everyone; has backed over 200 companies.
Author James Playsted Wood once wrote, “The thing that most affects the stock market is everything.”
The list does seem endless when you start ticking off the factors that influence stock market returns over time.
Headlines, geopolitical events, economic growth, government policies, human emotions, investor positioning, interest rates, inflation, risk appetite, demographics, quarterly earnings reports and the...
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It’s hard to believe we’re debating a potential bubble right now considering we had a mini-blink-and-you-missed-it bear market in April.
That downturn feels like an out-of-body experience because it happened so quickly.
That first week or so of April saw back-to-back down days of -5% and -6%. A few days later the market was up almost 10% in a single day and we were off to the races.
These V-shaped rallies feel...
A couple of weeks ago, it was announced that OpenAI is going to invest up to $300 billion in Oracle’s cloud computing.
This week, Nvidia committed $100 billion of investments into OpenAI.
Oracle is spending billions of dollars on Nvidia’s GPUs.
Nvidia invests in OpenAI who then invests in Oracle who then invests in Nvidia and Finkle is Einhorn and Einhorn is Finkle.
We’ve reached the mutually assured de...
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On today’s show, we discuss:
Nvidia plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as part of data center buildout
Orac...
