I truly wish I had just held on to my AMZN puts. Those things were gold.

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Walt Disney used to be one of the greatest stocks in the world. In recent years, however, thanks to some really bone-headed thinking on the part of its leadership, the company has become a train wreck. It has lost about 43% of its value in just a year’s time, and keep in mind, this isn’t some biotech start. This is a member of the Dow 30, for God’s sake.


Truly one of the great W.T.F. moments during the ridiculous buy-everything era of Jerome Powell and Dave Portnoy was a company called Snowflake. Behold this headline from 23 months ago:
