Raccoons

What do you get when you give a raccoon billions of dollars AND invisibility from regulators? Collusion and insider trading.

More than any other company, Facebook is undermining our democracy and our most integral political rights.

More than any other company, Facebook has bought and paid for political cover at the highest levels of American, Indian and European government, political cover that prevents any of the actions we might take as a society to rid ourselves of this cancer.

Facebook delenda est.

I think it's impossible to separate management self-enrichment through stock-based comp from the practice of stock buybacks.

Now that Jay Powell's semi-annual Congressional testimony has finished up, it's time for a brief walk down Memory Lane.

As with everything else in our Washington clown show, nothing really changes. This has all happened before.

Take back your vote. Take back your distance. Take back your data.

How to make our way as citizens in a fallen world, with Clear Eyes and Full Hearts to make it better.

The modern use of stock-based compensation is a confidence game, in the true sense of the word, that would be very familiar to the Music Man (but he doesn’t know the territory!).

Every time Dick Fuld’s publicists succeed in getting a “redemption story” published in the WSJ or NYT, I’m going to write an ET piece about Repo 105. Its consequences for investors haven’t gone away, and neither should we.

The inevitable result of financial innovation gone awry, which it ALWAYS does, is that it ALWAYS ends up empowering the State. When too clever by half people misplay the meta-game, that’s all the excuse the State needs to come swooping in and crush them, just as they are with Bitcoin today they did with Bear and Lehman in 2008. Installment #10 from Notes from the Field.