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Before the year is over, we must take one last glance at a company which, not that many years ago, would never have seen as a plausible candidate for a public offering. That is, the anonymous gay sex app known as Grindr (symbol GRND) which, denied the opportunity to issue a normal IPO, took the back entrance by way of a SPAC with predictable results. It is down 94% from its IPO high, only weeks ago. Why people keep buying stuff like this is quite beyond me.
Remember when Mark Minervini was on CNBC touting Upstart when it was about $400 and he couldn’t explain what the company did? (He pretended the audio wasn’t working). Anyway, it’s down about 97%. I’d congratulate Mark, but he probably can’t hear me through this janky audio connection.
Remember when Lemonade (LMND) was worth more than IBM? I sure do. In any case, it’s a piece of crap, quite plainly, whereas IBM, incredibly, is about the strongest stock in the universe.
Wow, what happened to Rite-AId?!?! They went from nearly $1,000 to $3! Have people stopped buying sanitary napkins and mouthwash? Or maybe they are dying from debt. What a disaster.
Perhaps you’ve heard that Stanford University – – the school that doesn’t dare fire Professor Bankman and Professor Fried out of abject terror of offending any community – – has banned a variety of everyday words since they are offensive. So don’t you dare say, write, or think ANY of these, or ELSE:
Also, if for some reason the word “prostitute” comes into a conversation you are having, you are required to refer to them as “person who engages in sex work.”
