The Most Astounding IPO Hype-and-Hoopla Show Ever Ends 2022 in Tears by Wolf Richter • Dec 26, 2022 • 87 Comments “The value of discipline is currently at an all-time high,” after years when the value of consensual hallucination was at an all-time high.
Tesla Joins my Imploded Stocks, -70% from Peak: Object of Religious Veneration Turns into Automaker by Wolf Richter • Dec 24, 2022 • 267 Comments Beyond the consensual hallucination, the real world for automakers is not fun.
Eleven Months After Going Public via SPAC, Texas-Based Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific Files for Bankruptcy by Wolf Richter • Dec 22, 2022 • 134 Comments Consensual-hallucination stocks and crypto just keep on giving.
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.
