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CrowdStruck, Ambarella Reigns & Canadian National Embarrassment September 1, 2021 Great Stuff CrowdStrike Thunderstruck I was caught … in the middle of a cyberattack. (Thunder!) I looked ‘round … and I knew someone had my back. (Thunder!) You’ve been … CrowdStruck! Now that you’ve got that guitar riff stuck in your head, too, let’s take a gander at Great Stuff Picks holding: CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: ). (It actually […]
Robinhoodwinked! August 31, 2021 Great Stuff Robinhood’s August Burns Red And I think the brokerage’s merry men would rather wake up when September ends… Robinhood (Nasdaq: ) has had an insane, narrative-driven month: Fresh off its IPO, Robinhood saw the Cathie-Wood-driven “meme stock rally that’s not a meme stock rally.” But that ARK-fueled summer had come and passed, and Robinhood knows […]
We’ll Pay You to Take Our Money August 31, 2021 Big Picture. Big Profits., Economy, Investing What if the Federal Reserve tried to give away money … and nobody wanted it?
That’s exactly what’s happening.
Last week, the stock market behaved as it always does in the run-up to a big Fed announcement.
Stocks traded sideways all week. Then on Friday, when Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank wasn’t going to be changing anything soon, everyone started buying again.
This is a familiar routine. It’s based on the assumption that the Fed has the power to raise or lower interest rates by buying bonds out of the market in exchange for cash injections.
But what if that assumption is wrong?
Lordstown Motors: Epic Comeback Or Falling To Pieces? August 28, 2021 Great Stuff What’s The Deal With Lordstown Motors? Question for you Great Ones: Can changing a company’s CEO really change a company’s stars? Can one man make things epic? (OK, that was two questions.) Electric vehicle (EV) maker Lordstown Motors (Nasdaq: ) and its investors certainly hope so. And if Daniel A. Ninivaggi’s history is anything to […]
Cassava’s Quality Quagmire, Warby’s Weeble Wobbles & Pitching An Urban Outfit August 25, 2021 Great Stuff The Not-So-Perfect Drug? One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small. And the ones that Cassava Sciences (Nasdaq: ) gives you might not do anything at all… Or so a “statement of concern” from Jordan Thomas says. Thomas is a partner and chair of Labaton Sucharow, a whistleblower legal practice that specializes […]





