Fate of “Free” Online Publishers: BuzzFeed’s Existential Crisis after its SPAC Merger by Wolf Richter • Dec 7, 2022 • 122 Comments It burned through most of its $700 million of investor cash. So now what?
New SPAC Stuff Keeps Imploding amid Shortage of “Consensual Hallucination,” as I Call it, But Now the Imploding is a Lot Faster by Wolf Richter • Dec 6, 2022 • 101 Comments I mean, like within hours and days, rather than weeks and months. But the SPAC sponsors want to make some money.
Lose $1.7 billion on $519 Million in Revenue? Bitcoin Miner SPAC Core Scientific Shows How. Bankrupt a Year after Going Public? by Wolf Richter • Nov 23, 2022 • 151 Comments Consensual hallucination was required to pull this off.
I Agree: Don’t Regulate Crypto, Let it Burn. Making Good Progress on its Own by Wolf Richter • Nov 21, 2022 • 350 Comments By letting it burn, it won’t get big enough to cause major contagion outside of crypto.
Cryptos Plunge, Contagion Sweeps Across DeFi: Trying to Go to Heaven Together, End Up Going to Heck Together? by Wolf Richter • Nov 9, 2022 • 228 Comments Binance-FTX deal now in doubt after revelations of huge black hole and investigations by the SEC and CFTC.
What a Day for Imploded Stocks: Affirm, Upstart, CarGurus, Lyft, MicroStrategy, Robinhood, Coinbase, and a Crypto Meltdown by Wolf Richter • Nov 9, 2022 • 131 Comments When a crypto-meltdown collides with earnings reports.
Shares of AI-Powered Home-Flipper Disruptor-SPAC Opendoor Get Annihilated by Wolf Richter • Nov 8, 2022 • 89 Comments Another big investor that pulls back from the housing market: it’s now a net-seller.
Imploded Stocks of the Day: Carvana, Twilio, Atlassian, Cloudflare by Wolf Richter • Nov 6, 2022 • 203 Comments The free-money virus turned investors’ brains to mush. But the healing has started, interest rates are recovering, QT is here, and look what we got.
Fed Hikes 75 Bpts to 3.75-4.0%, Pivots Even More Hawkish: “Very Premature to Be Thinking about or Talking about Pausing.” Markets Tank by Wolf Richter • Nov 2, 2022 • 230 Comments “What I’m trying to do is make sure our message is clear: we think we have a ways to go,” Powell said. “Rates have to go higher and stay higher for longer.”
Meta Makes Huge Mess Afterhours, Enters my “Imploded Stocks,” after Tech & Social-Media Already Messed up the Day by Wolf Richter • Oct 26, 2022 • 191 Comments Meta shares plunge 19% after hours, for a total plunge of 24% for the day: metaverse woes, online advertising, expenses.
