AIG would be doing fine today. It was one of the ten largest companies in the United States in terms of market value, over 200 billion, the most respected insurer and everything in the world.
The Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history.
Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.
Of our 49 billion, we haven't moved any to Bitcoin
Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.
If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.