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photo credit: Bigstock I’m back from two weeks in semi-self-imposed Twitter gulag after having refused the tech monopoly’s Darkness at Noon-style demand that I personally delete two of my tweets for being “hateful.” The requirement that I admit my guilt was reminiscent of how Stalin insisted that Bukharin and his other rivals confess to their imaginary crimes. On Jan. 25, 2021, I got an email from Twitter saying: Hi Steve Sailer, Specifically for: Violating our rules against hateful conduct. You may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the ...

Companies that go public via SPACs can be risky -- but they can also be opportunities.

January 15, 2021 3:16 AM newsfeedback@fool.com (Rich Smith) Posted: Updated: January 16, 2021 5:47 AM Companies going public with the help of special purpose acquisition companies — SPAC IPOs — was perhaps the hottest investing trend in 2020. But last week The Wall Street Journal opinion pages fired a broadside at the trend toward IPO-ing via SPAC . Denouncing the phenomenon as a “fad on Wall Street,” Stanford Law School professor Michael Klausner and management consultant Emily Ruan teamed up to explain how a company that sponsors a SPAC IPO gets “a nice return on its in...

The next time the Fed reduces its bond purchase program the market reaction should be more like a nervous breakdown rather than just a tantrum. First let’s review a bit of the historical histrionics surrounding the initial Taper Tantrum. Back in September 2012, the Fed’s Quantitative Easing program was running at the level of $85 billion per month. The asset purchase program consisted of both Mortgage-Backed Securities and Treasuries. Then, in December 2012, Fed Chair Ben Bernanke expanded his massive QE 3 scheme by making its duration unlimited. But by May 2013, the time had fin...

Was to spend that money helping humanity. >> it was just a few months back, if your company ended in dot-com it was a good thing. but at the end of this brutal week on wall street, a lot of analysts think the internet bubble is ready to burst, and by this time next year, a huge number of those dot-coms might be dot gone. >> a year ago, investors were so eager to buy into the internet they were happily ignoring traditional measures of success. sales, profits and growth. but reality has now set in. >> these upstarts didn't have any income. they were saying, we are worth billions of dollars. wher...