This week in Exponential Investor...

Find out all the top news from Sam and the team

Find out all the top news from Sam and the team

 

This week's recommendations: • The REAL reason Trump is launching a social media platform   • Things look a little different from the inside   • How one announcement sent this stock 17.5-times higher in two days   • Could this signal have predicted what happened next to Tesla?

The REAL reason Trump is launching a social media platform   What is "freedom of speech"?   In the United States it's enshrined in the constitution as the "First Amendment" which reads,   Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Read more here

Things look a little different from the inside   There's a grey area between investing normally like we do, and insider trading.   We have no non-public information. Insider "trading" involves the illegal use of non-public information to profit from the news ahead of the market.   Trading alongside an insider, not insider trading Read more here

How one announcement sent this stock 17.5-times higher in two days   "Insider trading scandal".   This was the claim when it came to light that Senator Kelly Loeffler had liquidated millions in stock within days of a private Senate Health Committee hearing on coronavirus in March 2020.   While rejecting the accusations, Loeffler and her husband Jeffrey Sprecher also then liquidated their holdings in Bakkt Inc., the bitcoin futures company owned by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). Read more here

Could this signal have predicted what happened next to Tesla?   Tesla is now a one-trillion-dollar company.   This maker of electric vehicles (EVs) has a market value is larger than Facebook's, and it joins a list of four companies over that threshold – Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Saudi Aramco.   While Apple had sales of $274 billion in 2020, Tesla's were only $12 billion.   It's larger, by that measure, than the next nine car companies put together. Read more here

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