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December 9, 2024 Meme stocks, those social media darlings, have captured the market’s attention with their sharp price rises and drops. But what happens to these high-flying favorites when the market takes a downturn? The Case of MicroStrategy (MSTR) Let’s take a closer look at MicroStrategy (MSTR), a company whose

December 6, 2024 Bill Cara and John Mugarian From Boom to Bust: Lessons from the Dotcom Bubble In the late 1990s, the internet boom led to a frenzy of investing in tech stocks. Caught up in the excitement, novice investors poured money into start-up companies with little or no profit,

December 4, 2024 Northstar Clean Technologies (TSX.V: ROOF | OTC: ROOOF) provided the following notes and highlights after this week’s webinar. All dollar amounts are in $CAD unless otherwise noted. I am 100% independent and receive no compensation from this company. However, I want to keep readers involved as Northstar is the

December 4, 2024 Many years ago, the founder and CEO of one of North America’s leading advertising firms gave me advice I have never forgotten. He said clients multiplied their promotional budget right before bankruptcy in a final gasp effort to save themselves. Eventually, very few of them paid because

November 29, 2024 AI has been criticized for producing plagiarized and reshuffled content from previous publications. I believe that to be true. In my case, however, AI has been instrumental in constructively criticizing my personal writing, helping me become a better writer. Here’s an example. This morning, I uploaded the

November 28, 2024 From the Federal Reserve History. “In 2007, losses on mortgage-related financial assets began to cause strains in global financial markets, and in December 2007, the US economy entered a recession. That year, several large financial firms experienced financial distress, and many financial markets experienced significant turbulence.” From its peak

November 27, 2024 Today, I read Bloomberg’s “Time to end SEC, says trading titan Don Wilson,” and was disturbed. https://www.investmentnews.com/alternatives/time-to-end-sec-says-trading-titan-don-wilson/258391 This article raises several critical issues and points for discussion by serious investors and critical thinkers concerned about financial regulatory changes I see as possible, if not likely, under the

November 24, 2024 NYUGrad introduced his subscribers and me to NotebookLM, a Google AI technology that “helps you understand complex information by summarizing facts, explaining ideas, and brainstorming connections.” It offers many features but one of the impressive ones is that it auto-generates a podcast from text files. You may

November 26, 2024 While searching the internet this week for an article I wrote in the Bahamas while living and working there in 2006, I discovered a blog by somebody called “wabrew” that referred to a selection of my extensive Week In Review report dated October 14, 2006. Earlier that

November 19, 2024 (Adapted from an article in 2019 by a consultant and media adviser published in The Jordan Times. This is a divergence from the usual ‘Help You Invest’ article, but investors must try to understand the big picture.) From the 1950s to the early 1990s, the world was