Rivian Just Did What Investors Despised Lucid for. How Bad Is It?

Nigel Farage Is a Hyper-Capitalist Ruled by His Own Greed

“I can spend it on Ferraris if I want.” Farage’s political career has made him fabulously wealthy while he pushes policies to make the rich richer – yet he has managed to convince working people that he has their best interests at heart. On Novara Live, journalist Paul Holden highlights how Farage’s economic agenda would “massively screw over his own voters”.

Billionaires Bill Ackman, Jeremy Grantham, and Cliff Asness Are Piling Into This AI Stock the Market Is Severely Undervaluing

The sell-off in this stock has created a great buying opportunity.

Tech giants lose $2 trillion in SpaceX’s IPO month: ‘The valuations were unsustainable’

The enormous sums committed to developing artificial intelligence are making investors nervous

One Of The Huge Mistakes Dividend Investors Are Making Right Now

One Of The Huge Mistakes Dividend Investors Are Making Right Now

Milei-linked Fundación Faro told to name donors behind US$4.8mn windfall

Fundación Faro presented itself as a platform of ideas. But the libertarian think tank’s opaque finances, links to key Milei insiders and 400-fold surge in donations have left the organisation facing uncomfortable questions from regulators and judges. Leer más

Michael Burry just shorted Caterpillar’s 172% AI rally. One analyst says his bet won’t even matter

The Big Short investor calls Caterpillar one of the market's most overvalued AI trades—but an analyst argues the rally reflects a real structural shift.

Economists thought prediction markets would be a panacea. But shysters will corrupt and rig anything they can bet on, and the obvious ensued [Followup]

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A Chip-Wreck: Souring AI sentiment pulls markets lower – Lunaro Weekly Report

Nick Spencer-Skeen, Senior Executive Officer, Lunaro Financial Markets The key theme that dominated markets last week was positioning pressure in AI and semiconductors, where weakness in SK Hynix and Samsung spilled quickly into US mega-cap tech. Rising concern around memory pricing and stretched valuations turned into a wider de-risking of the AI complex, spreading even [] The post A Chip-Wreck: Souring AI sentiment pulls markets lower – Lunaro Weekly Report appeared first on Middle East News 247.

30-Year Real Yield Near Financial Crisis Level

Subadra Rajappa, head of US rates strategy at Société Générale, and Vineer Bhansali, founder of LongTail Alpha, joins Katie Greifeld on Bloomberg Real Yield. Long-end Treasury real yields climbed to the highest in nearly two decades, signaling investors will increasingly need protection from policy uncertainty. (Source: Bloomberg)

UBS Analyst Calls Palantir (NASDAQ: PLTR) Stock Undervalued As AI Competition Fears Grip Wall Street

UBS analyst Karl Keirstead is pushing back against the market’s increasingly bearish read on Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR), arguing that investors are misreading both the company’s competitive position and its valuation. Keirstead made his case after attending Palantir’s latest AIPCon event and holding meetings with company executives, coming away with a notably more constructive view [] The post UBS Analyst Calls Palantir (NASDAQ: PLTR) Stock Undervalued As AI Competition Fears Grip Wall Street appeared first on Foreign Policy Journal.

Op-Ed: Scheme to Loot Energy Producers, Supercharge Affordability Crisis, Gets Hearing in N.J.

By Doug Kellogg Cross-Posted from ATR.org In the midst of an affordability crisis that has demanded the attention of politicians from the right and left, [...]

UK’s Farage’s gold deal tests his populist brand as Restore Britain rises

As another far-right party gains ground, scrutiny of Farage's outside earnings challenges his anti-establishment image.

Angry about Farage’s cash? He’s not the only one taking big money

Money flows like water and it will find the weakest link

AI-crazed San Francisco homebuyers find insane new currency to outbid rivals

Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence boom is making home-buying in the notoriously expensive Bay Area real estate market even more miserable. In a viral post this week, Michael Hess, a founder at an AI-moderated research platform, shared a screenshot of a text message exchange with a realtor. Hess in the exchange was notified that his bid []

Billionaire Larry Ellison once fought the entire city of San Jose so he could land his private jet at midnight, but when it came to buying a $490 million megayacht, he did it over lattes and two emails

Larry Ellison, the tech titan, exemplifies contrasts through extravagant purchases and turbulent legal encounters. His lavish superyacht was created with little legal fuss, showcasing a whimsical side. Yet, after five years, he embraced minimalism amidst a notable drop in his wealth due to stock market changes. As Oracle’s fiscal health is now scrutinized, all eyes are on its future direction.

How to invest when everything is moving too fast

TechCrunch's StrictlyVC evening in Los Angeles late last week brought together two of the more straight-talking investors working in AI right now. They were as entertaining as they were illuminating.

US Taxation Is Fueled by Quiet Envy

Forget equity and fairness and reducing so-called wealth gaps. The current “tax-the-rich” movement is driven by an unspoken pathology: envy.

One big grift

The SpaceX IPO, valuing a motley collection of dubious business at over a trillion dollars, marks the abandonment of the Efficient (financial) Markets Hypothesis, one of the zombie ideas I criticised in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. Not only do financial markets fail in the task of valuing assets accurately, but the institutional structures that []

SpaceX Investors Are Losing a Colossal Amount of Money

It's a brutal reality check. The post SpaceX Investors Are Losing a Colossal Amount of Money appeared first on Futurism.

The AI Superfans Companies Count On to Convert Skeptics...

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Chamath Palihapitiya: Meta “fumbled” its shot at AI

On The Axios Show, Chamath Palihapitiya said Meta “fumbled” its lead in AI, dismissed the jobs apocalypse, and finally called his SPAC incentives “grossly misaligned.” Here is what the investor told Axios. Chamath Palihapitiya does not do quiet interviews. On The Axios Show, the investor and All-In podcast co-host ranged across Meta’s AI stumble, the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Bitcoin at $62K and Gold Holding $4,100: What the Fed’s Shadow Is Doing to Safe-Haven Assets

Rate hike fears are pressuring both markets — but the story is more complicated than it looks.Continue reading on Medium »

The BizNews Edge: Economic warnings flash; corporate giants mispriced; SpaceX tumbles

The BizNews Edge: Economic warnings flash; corporate giants mispriced; SpaceX tumbles