This Could Cut Tesla’s Stock Price By 70%
What if Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA | TSLA Price Prediction) is primarily a car company? After months of being beaten down in Europe, Tesla’s sales are making a comeback, where both competition and Elon Musk’s…
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High Gas Prices Don’t Help Tesla
On paper, high gas prices should help EV companies. As gas moves above $5, this should happen, on paper. There are several reasons this won’t work for Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA | TSLA Price Prediction),…
Ten Ways Americans Can Cut Oil Use
This is how the IEA put it. The world needs “Immediate actions to reduce demand.” The global energy landscape has shifted following the mid-March and April 2026 escalations, including the attacks on Iran’s South…
Uber Can’t Save Rivian
The announcement of a robotaxi partnership between Uber (NASDAQ: UBER | UBER Price Prediction) and Rivian (NASDAQ: RIVN) has many holes. The headline of their press release was “Uber and Rivian Partner to Deploy…
$2 Trillion War Over The Fate Of AI
The headlines won’t stop. The most recent is that Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN | AMZN Price Prediction) Jeff Bezos plans to raise $100 billion for a new AI Manufacturing Fund to buy manufacturing facilities and…
Moody’s Puts Odds Of Recession At 50/50
OK, Moody’s actually put the odds of a recession at 49%. The yardstick is within the next year. That is one of their highest figures in the last several years. The trigger that sent…
Who Will Deliver Your Mail If Post Office Collapses?
For years, the cost of retirement fund payments has hung around the U.S. Postal Service like an albatross. According to Brookings, “As of September 30, 2024, the US Postal Service (USPS) FERS retirement fund…
NVIDIA’s Huge China Win, But Tariff Could Ruin It
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction) was allowed to sell its “second-best” H20 AI chip in China. Then it was, and then it wasn’t. Now it is. However, it may have to pay…
Microsoft’s Troubled AI Problems Just Got Worse
It is generally accepted that Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT | MSFT Price Prediction) Asus ProArt PX13 AI product has fallen behind Google’s Gemini, OpenAI’s GPT-5.4, and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6. (Each makes different products for…
A Deep Recession Has Already Started
A recession is defined by two consecutive quarters of decline in GDP, but the current macroeconomic reality is far more complex. While early estimates suggested a deep contraction, Q1 GDP actually expanded between 1.6%…
The Destruction of Peloton Continues
No matter how smart the ideas may have been, or how many top managers Peloton (NASDAQ: PTON) has hired, the company has been ruined, and the events that destroyed it have finally dragged it…
Palantir’s 625% Run Up. Who Cares About Controversy?
Even amid the recent sell-off that dented the market, Palantir’s (NASDAQ: PLTR | PLTR Price Prediction) stock has outperformed the S&P by a remarkably large margin. Shares are up 550% in the last few…
Apple’s 108% Run Up
Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock is up 108% in the last five years. The S&P is 69% over the same period. It should surprise most people that Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN | AMZN Price Prediction) is…
Netflix Has No Rivals
After a trivial deal between two companies about AI content, Barron’s wrote a headline that read, “Netflix Rival Strikes Deal With Google in Battle for AI Content.” The deal in question was for the…
In Battle For America’s Cheapest Menu, McDonald’s Offers $3 Meals
McDonald’s (NYSE MCD | MCD Price Prediction) will offer a $3 meal, according to an exclusive report in The Wall Street Journal. In 2024, McDonald’s started its discount program with a $5 meal. McDonald’s…
Costco’s Entire Profit Model Threatened As Customer Sues For Refund
One of the big questions about the future of tariffs is whether the recent Supreme Court’s decision to end the use of several executive orders to levy them means that those who paid under…
Does Iran War Show Ford And GM Turned In The Wrong Direction?
The war in Iran could be over in a week or drag on for months. Old tankers may start to make their way through the Strait of Hormuz next week. Or, they could be…
Oracle Saves The “Magnificent Seven”
Oracle’s (NASDAQ: ORCL | ORCL Price Prediction) earnings showed that it was not overextended, that it’s a huge bet on the future of data centers, and its AI revenue was not a long shot.…
Samsung Caught Apple In Smartphone Sales
TrendForce, which tracks global smartphone shipments and production, reports that Samsung’s production matched Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL | AAPL Price Prediction) last year. Total global smartphones reached 1.25 billion across the industry. Apple and Samsung…
Market Meltdown Odds At 35%
Ed Yardeni, one of Wall St.’s most revered market strategists whose overall forecasts of stock movements are widely followed, moved his odds for a market meltdown to 35% from 20%. He gave the war…