by irdadmin | Nov 25, 2019 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
How does NFLX manage to show positive net income yet burn hundreds of millions of dollars each quarter? It’s the magic of GAAP accounting. I did a detailed analysis for my Short Seller’s Journal subscribers back in 2017. Each quarter NFLX has to spend...
by irdadmin | Oct 17, 2018 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
A colleague/friend asked today how I thought the “FANG saga” would end. I replied that I don’t know about GOOG and FB, but AMZN is maybe worth $50/share as it burns cash every quarter despite manufacturing GAAP “net income” so it’s...
by irdadmin | Aug 2, 2017 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
July auto sales was a blood-bath for U.S auto makers. The SAAR (Seasonally Manipulated Adjusted Annualized Rate) metric – aka “statistical vomit” – presented a slight increase for July over June (16.7 SAAR vs 16.5 SAAR). But the statisticians...
by irdadmin | Jul 31, 2017 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
“‘Faith’ is defined as “belief without evidence.” AMZN is a stock investment that thrives on investor faith. Investor greed transforms into irrational faith when the faith is rewarded with stock gains. This will ultimately burn out but it’s...
by irdadmin | Jul 28, 2017 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Over the time since I started the Short Seller’s Journal, several subscribers have asked about Netflix (NFLX). For some reason I have refrained from presenting it as a short idea, instead choosing AMZN and TSLA as my insanely overvalued “tech poison”...
