Elon is Why People Cry Out for Regulators

Yes, it’s manipulation and that’s why smaller folk are crying for help. [Unsubscribe]( [Image](https://) Elon is Why People Cry Out for Regulators - Elon is digging his own grave with his comments. - AT&T gives up the entertainment ghost. - Aswath Damodaran on why mergers are an automatic sell signal. - 10 Managing Directors to Leave Credit Suisse after Archegos disaster. - Gold update. Recommended Link [The Constitution is set to cause an explosion in Gold…]( [Click here for more]( Are you aware of the constitutional amendment set to cause an explosion in the gold market? If not, then I urge you to see my latest video, where I detail what I predicted to happen within the first six months of atheBiden presidency… This may be your only chance to take advantage of what I detail right here… [Click Here To Watch Now]( Sean Ring Editor, Rude Awakening It’s Tuesday! Before I get into the meat and taters of today’s edition, I’d like to thank Beau John and Margaret for writing to the Rude’s mailbag. Once I figure out how to access the mailbag to reply - which should be later today, I hope - I’ll write you back individually. It’s a transcontinental logistics thing, not a laziness thing! Ok, let’s get into it. “Make Sure You Regulate the Water!” Every weekend for years, as small boys, my cousin and I would sleepover at my grandparents’ house in Ridgefield, NJ. I loved staying over there, as my grandma was a lovely woman… and a great cook! My grandfather was your typical World War II veteran, except he seemed to love the war experience. “If it wasn’t for World War II, I’d have never left New Jersey!” Both were proud Italian-Americans and celebrated any athlete, celebrity, or politician whose surname ended with a vowel. Later, my parents would arrive for our usual Sunday spaghetti lunch and then drive us back home afterward. Besides watching all the episodes of The Incredible Hulk and The Dukes of Hazzard, I have many fond memories of that time. And one very odd one. I distinctly remember whenever I was getting into the bathtub, my grandmother would shout, “Make sure you regulate the water!” Are you the type of person who remembers where they were when they learn a word? I am. (Besides “regulate,” “mercurochrome” and “Coca-Cola syrup” spring to mind.) It’s funny because even as a 6-year-old, I immediately understood what she meant. “Regulate,” as in “to make regular.” Or “to iron out the extremes.” The first definition that comes up what you Google “regulate” is “control or maintain the rate or speed of (a machine or process) so that it operates properly.” As Americans who lived through FDR and his New Deal, “regulate” was a commonly used term for my grandparents. Regulation was de rigeur. FDR was all about flow (and socialism, if you’re a free marketeer). At that point, regulation did not mean, “Let’s get fully armored police knocking on your door to collect taxes.” It wasn’t extreme. It was an action taken to smooth out processes, rightly or wrongly. Of course, Henry Hazlitt destroys the regulation argument in Economics in One Lesson, Chapter 26. Except the public hasn’t read that book, and the politicians who have read it ignore it. But bear with me. The public will never tolerate a financial regulator getting abolished. I’m sorry to all those libertarians whose hearts I’ve just broken. But it’s time for some home truths. And that may be the most important one. This brings me to Elon Musk. Elon has been tweeting away like my favorite Orange Man on uppers about Doge, Bitcoin, and all manner of things he purports to know better than the public. Peter Thiel, PayPal’s CEO after they ousted Musk, surely snickered... Or chortled…. Or guffawed upon reading that tweet, I’m sure! But the problem is real, if little, people are losing big money when he opens his gob. Or tweets like a 16-year-old girl. They cry out for help. That help usually comes in the form of our distinguished… no, extinguished... regulators. This is a perfect opportunity for the SEC, who currently don’t have any regulatory powers over crypto, to take Elon quietly aside and say, “Elon, we know you’re brilliant and you’re just thinking out loud. But for right now, STFU. Since it’s not in our powers to do so, we can’t do anything to you, so you can choose to ignore us. But one day, I promise you, Elon, we will able to do what we like to you with impunity.” I think that’s all it would take. Because what you’ve got now is an SEC that’s doing nothing and a public wondering why BTC’s and Dogecoin’s volatility is on par with Charlie Sheen’s drug binges. This is what leads to stricter, market-distorting, regulation. And yes, the public asks for it. No, the public demands it! And like HL Mencken says, they get it good and hard. Before you call me a “statist,” which is the worst smear ever, there is a private solution to all this. Back in the old days, if a trader on the London Stock Exchange ever got out of line, or welshed on a deal, they got “the cold shoulder.” It’s a formal term meaning no one will deal with them. They’d literally be met with other investors turning their back on them. Giving them the cold shoulder, so to speak. Some things were just better in the old days. Nowadays, there’s no way to enforce a cold shoulder. Oh well. Recommended Link [Will Your Money REALLY Last Your Lifetime?]( [Click here for more...]( America has a MASSIVE retirement crisis. 67% of Americans say they’ll outlive their savings. To help those who need to learn how to make up lost ground, Louis Navellier is holding his first-ever Accelerated Wealth Summit and he’ll reveal how you could double your money at least 6 TIMES this year. [Click Here For More Details]( AT&T Decides It’s a Phone Company Just 3 years into its entertainment foray, AT&T made the biggest u-turn in corporate history. AT&T’s WarnerMedia will be combined with Discovery in a new, publicly-traded entity. WarnerMedia owns HBO, CNN, TNT, and TBS as well as the Warner Bros. television and film studio. Discovery owns the eponymous network and HGTV. AT&T shareholders will hold a 71% stake in the new entity, while Discovery shareholders own a 29% stake. In exchange, AT&T said it will receive $43 billion of cash, debt securities, and WarnerMedia’s retention of certain debt. AT&T also signaled it will cut its dividend. I don’t usually talk about individual stocks here, as macro and gold are the prime game here at the Rude. But goodness, I hate mergers. They almost never realize “synergy” at the highest levels and are usually just a way for investment bankers to dupe CEOs bent on some sort of “prestige” into ludicrously expensive deals. NYU’s most excellent Professor of Finance, Aswath Damodaran - one of the few academics worth your time - [has this to say]( about mergers and acquisitions: “I firmly believe that acquisitions are an addiction, that once companies start to grow through acquisitions, they cannot stop. Everything about the M&A process has all the hallmarks of an addiction.” “If you look at the collective evidence across acquisitions, this is the most value destructive action a company can take.” “Do you know half of all mergers are reversed within 10 years of the merger? The company that did the acquisition phase finally shows up and says, ‘Didn’t work.’” “I have 53 stocks in my portfolio, and I have one trigger that will lead me to sell the stocks right away. You do a big acquisition, I’m out of your stock. I don’t care what justification you give me. Because I know my history. If you do a big acquisition, the odds are loaded up against you.” That’s one great, definitive sell signal. If you have time today, [read the whole article](. It’s well worth 8 minutes of your time. And Finally, Yet Another Kick to Credit Suisse It seems a bunch of Managing Directors (usually the top rank at an investment bank) have had enough of covering up for their more incompetent peers in the wake of the Archegos disaster. (If you didn’t read my take on Archegos, jump [here]( later.) According to [The Wall Street Journal]( at least 10 managing directors in the Swiss firm’s U.S. investment-banking division have internally disclosed plans to leave. Unfortunately, they’ll head to rival firms, according to people familiar with the matter. Other bankers are considering their options, and more are expected to depart in the coming weeks. Not unexpected. Gold Update Ok, now I love this chart. Next stop: $2,020 or thereabouts. Ok, that’s all I’ve got for this morning. Have a wonderful Tuesday! 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