Not A Bubble! Just a Bull Market!

Stocks Benefit From Surge Pricing A review of February equities market performance The Drivers : AI + Economic Improvement + Corporate & Consumer Confidence What’s Next? Looking Back to Look Forward : Month End Equities Market Comment 2024 Episode 3 This being the 3rd edition of the year for our month-end equities market commentary, it’s […] Read More

4 March, 2024
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2024 Financial Market Predictions

Knowing that nearly every reader has already consumed as many financial market predictions for the new year as they can stand, we decided to wait for the official first day of 2024 to publish our financial market predictions and outlook, if only because Santa Claus rallies that find Santa slipping from his sled during the […] Read More

2 January, 2024
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Fintech Phony Andrew Katz Convicted on 4 Felony Assault…

Andrew Katz, aka Ross Katz aka Drew Katz aka Stark Katz, a serial criminal who, at various times over the past seven years has claimed to be a “crypto entrepreneur” (operating through an entity known as “Seaquake”), and more recently, profiles himself on LinkedIn * as a “Fintech and “AI entrepreneur”, has fled Florida after […] Read More

3 August, 2023
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Crypto Criminal Andrew Katz Pleads Guilty to Felony Rap…

Andrew Ross Katz aka Drew Katz aka Ross Katz aka Stark Katz, the former co-founder of a crypto criminal enterprise known to have used a labyrinth of shell companies under the name “Seaquake” to defraud investors such as crypto pioneer Brock Pierce, and an individual who claims to be a “fintech entrepreneur” whose criminal arrest […] Read More

24 May, 2023
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Silicon Valley Bank aka SVB Financial Group Implodes Hours…

When a CEO of a publicly-traded company says that, you know it’s time to put your head between your knees and grab your ankles.  Especially after SVB CEO Gregory Becker, sold nearly 20% of his holdings in the company at $285 per share, ten days before the FDIC seized the bank. Hours Before Bank Seized, […] Read More

12 March, 2023
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Bankrupt Crypto Firm Three Arrows Capital Has a New…

The founders of Singapore-based and now bankrupt crypto “investment firm” Three Arrows Capital (aka 3AC), Su Zhu and Kyle Davies seem to aspire to be profiled in “Ripley’s Believe It or Nuts” with their latest pitch to investors: “For a mere $25mil, we aim to build a ‘crypto bankruptcy claims platform’ that can enable [defrauded] […] Read More

21 January, 2023
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FTX Crypto Exchange Debacle Simply Explained

Sam Bankman-Fried (aka “SBF”) Fries Clients and Customers FTX Crypto Exchange Bankruptcy Explained; Investors Loss Estimated at $2bil; Exchange Customers Loss Estimated at $4bil-$5bil (so far..) Comparisons Made to Lehman Brothers Scandal; Sam Bankman-Fried Scheme More Similar to Jon Corzine Shenanigans when he ran MF Global into the ground. By now, the travails and debacle […] Read More

12 November, 2022

Andrew aka Drew Katz Fintech Fraud Artist

Andrew Katz, aka Drew Katz, the self-described CEO of now defunct “crypto trading firm” Seaquake.io, an individual whose escapades for defrauding investors and threatening those who have filed complaints against him have been profiled via this platform and other platforms for several years. In addition to his ongoing efforts to dupe investors (with the latest attempt revealed below), […] Read More

14 April, 2024
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New Study: Venezuela Banking System Better Regulated Than U.S.

Failures of SVB, Signature Bank, and (pending failure) First Republic Bank Demonstate US Federal Reserve Bank Regional Divisions Stymied by Conflict, Cronyism, Blind Eye Syndrome March Madness 2023: The failures of Silicon Valley Bank aka “SVB” (NASDAQ:SIVB), Signature Bank (NASDAQ:SBNY), and on-the-precipice of failing, First Republic Bank (NYSE:FRC) illustrate common denominators, aside from each having […] Read More

20 March, 2023
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Fraudster CFO Re-Invents Himself; Former Seaquake Executive Matt Krueger…

Matthew J. Krueger, who until October 2022 had displayed himself on both LinkedIn and the Seaquake.io website as the Chief Financial Officer for “digital asset infrastructure firm”, Seaquake.io, an enterprise that specialized in bilking investors out of their money, has apparently made efforts to re-invent himself and ‘erase’ his role for Seaquake.io, as his bio […] Read More

22 November, 2022
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The Tale of Crypto Talking Head Mike Novogratz

For those not aware, Michael Novogratz, the famed crypto industry ‘pioneer’ and crypto evangelist is a former Goldman Sachs ‘global macro wunderkind’ who then did a stint at asset management firm Fortress Investments, which cratered during his watch, turned into a bitcoin evangelist and became the “bitcoin billionaire” brains behind “crypto investment firm” Galaxy Digital. […] Read More

18 June, 2022
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$DWAC, The SPAC on Crack

Digital World Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ:DWAC) Blank Check Company aka SPAC Proposes to Merge With Trump Blank-Deck Company. Will SEC Investigate? When “E.F. Hutton Talks”, Will SEC Chairman Gensler Read the SEC and FINRA Rules Prohibiting SPAC Sponsors from engaging with acquisition targets prior to listing?? Just when we thought that MarketsMuse coverage of Donald Trump’s […] Read More

24 October, 2021
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Elon Musk Plans Self-Immolation to Create NFT Artwork; Pre-Auction…

From the Believe It or Nuts Department: Elon Musk, aka Technoking of Tesla and SpaceX boss, has tweeted that he will create an NFT Digital Video Artwork that showcases his self-immolation. Tesla CFO Zack Kirhorn, who just changed his corporate title to Master of Coin, will wrap the video with an NFT (non-fungible token) for […] Read More

16 March, 2021
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Social Capital SPAC Machine Latest: $500m Blank Check Company…

Social Capital SPAC factory run by SPACmeister, notorious Tweeter and promoter of RedditArmy favorite stocks Chamath Palihapitiya is rumored to have filed a confidential S-1 for his latest Special Purpose Acquisition Company, (aka SPAC). The entity is to be called SIDS Acquisition Corp. According to sources, @chamath aims to focus on “biotech companies that are […] Read More

2 March, 2021
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“Crypto-Trading Firm” Founder Andrew Katz Now Faces Felony Assault…

Andrew Katz aka Ross Katz aka Stark Katz, the co-founder of so-called digital asset infrastructure and crypto-currency trading firm Seaquake.io, who along with his partner Matthew J. Krueger of San Francisco and UK citizen Dylan Knight are facing investor fraud charges, is now slated to appear in New York Criminal Court April 30 to answer […] Read More

19 February, 2021
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Amateur Day Traders Liberate The Markets-Making The Rich Richer

“Amateur Day Traders” by the tens of thousands who are taking tips from #reddit and #daytrading rebels, and particularly, the financial market anarchists who believe you are inflicting pain on fat cat wall street hedge fund traders by squeezing their shorts and bidding up share prices of distressed or challenged companies (e.g $GME, $AMC and […] Read More

31 January, 2021
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GameStop Stock Surge Explained

GameStop Corp (NYSE:GME) $GME share trading during the past days has, if you’ve somehow not heard, proven that an un-coordinated assembly of day traders, enabled and empowered by social media platforms Reddit and WallStreetBets can accomplish what the mob that attempted to take over the capitol in Washington DC could only dream about. Financial Market […] Read More

27 January, 2021
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PFE Covid-19 Vaccine: Will Biden Now Go After SBA…

With today’s announcement from Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) indicating they are that much closer to a Covid-19 vaccine, its time to look forward to who the Biden administration will appoint to prosecute the tens of thousands of SBA PPP loan scammers who reaped tens of billions after the Trump administration made it a simple feat to fill […] Read More

9 November, 2020