What is the Metaverse Anyway?

Blue Chips, Short Puts & Corrections

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Since Oct. 12, the S&P 500 is down over 7%, and over that same period, some of the largest capitalized stocks in the United States are down significantly more—a development that has opened up a plethora of new investment and trading opportunities. The list below highlights some of the recent carnage in the large-cap space … Continued

Google’s Earnings Error—Profits Not Found

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By the end of this week, more than half of the 500 companies in the S&P 500 will have reported earnings. And with companies such as Alphabet (GOOGL), Amazon (AMZN), Apple (APPL), Facebook (FB) and Microsoft (MSFT) all set to report during these five trading days, it’s an especially big week for the technology sector.  … Continued

Managing the Menace of Internet Powerhouses

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A diverse panel plumbs the excesses of Google, Amazon and Facebook The ravenous rulers of the internet aren’t satiated by the tasty data that innocent users willingly feed them. They augment that information with the voluminous intelligence bought and sold by financial institutions, healthcare providers, location trackers and just about any other imaginable entity that … Continued

Waking Up to the Big Tech Catastrophe

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Consumers willingly trade their personal data for personalized interactions with retailers. Each time technology companies go lower into the brainstem, it takes a little more control of society. It starts small. First to get your attention, I add slot machine “pull to refresh” rewards which create little addictions. I remove stopping cues for “infinite scroll” … Continued

Amazon’s Fires

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The tech behemoth is taking a lot of heat. Here’s a contrarian analyst’s perspective. Amazon (AMZN) has had a tumultuous year. The stock traded as low as $1,500 the first week of January before breaking the $2,000 level in July and settling back into the $1,700s. The company’s top managers, like many other Americans, are … Continued