The conventional thing to say is that a stock split doesn’t change anything important about a company or its stock.
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A weird archaism of American corporate law is that companies have to write down, fairly early in their histories, the
Continue readingInvest: Time the market
Could last week have been the market bottom? The concept of a Follow Through Day has been known in the
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Well, here’s a claim: In December 2020, Visa, Mastercard, and Discover stopped processing payments for Pornhub, a website based in Canada
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Last week, one of the most discussed forms of sanction on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine was the idea
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Here is a lawsuit in which a guy (the plaintiff, Timothy McKimmy) is suing a non-fungible token exchange (the defendant,
Continue readingInvest: Stocks and bonds hate inflation
Let me start this discussion by quoting Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett wrote How inflation Swindles the Equity Investor in 1977.
Continue readingInvest: Web3 and Ponzi economy
My basic model of Web3 is that any Web3 project consists of (1) the ostensible project plus (2) a Ponzi
Continue readingInvest: Google stock split and what it means to retail investors
The other day I was talking to someone about the trend of mayors who take their salary in Bitcoin, and
Continue readingInvest: New ways to take money from the dumb in Crypto
The appeal of crypto for traditional high-tech trading firms is real. The appeal is in very important part intellectual: You
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