Shawn Tully
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After an astounding rise in home prices, this expert predicts the boom will continue
The May increases for all four price tiers of residential real estate are the highest monthly figures ever recorded in the American Enterprise Institute's nine years of data. → Read More
Elon Musk’s bad bet: Bitcoin’s sudden dive will hit Tesla with a Q2 loss
Even if Bitcoin rebounds from here, Tesla is deploying an accounting system that will force it to book a sizable Q2 loss on its daring investment. → Read More
Bitcoin plunges, losing last week’s ‘Musk bump’––and then some
Bitcoin is now flirting with its 2021, intraday low of $30,682, posted on April 14. → Read More
A new report highlights the incredibly high environmental cost of Tesla’s Bitcoin investment
The study's authors, for the first time, quantify the share of Bitcoin's emissions attributable to Tesla's holdings. → Read More
A strategy session at 40,000 feet: How Southwest Airlines used the pandemic to outmaneuver the majors
As Southwest turns 50, CEO Gary Kelly walks Fortune through the airline's darkest hours—and outlines how a few bold bets have positioned the legendary company to soar once again. → Read More
Robert Shiller's favorite stock market metric just hit an alarming new high
The "CAPE" is at its highest reading since December of 2000, when the index had just started its descent from the heights of the tech bubble. → Read More
Elon Musk’s Bitcoin tweet raises Tesla’s holdings by $143 million
Elon Musk's latest endorsement sent Bitcoin on a moonshot. → Read More
How Blackstone built the perfect pandemic portfolio in real estate
Blackstone pivoted to invest in unsexy properties like e-commerce warehouses and suburban apartments—and has reaped soaring profits as COVID reshaped the economy. → Read More
Lumber alternative Trex is growing, green, and a top-performing stock
Last year, Trex recycled no less than one and a half billion plastic bags, and diverted 400 million pounds of discarded plastics from landfills to manufacture its composite wood. → Read More
The Bitcoin rollercoaster will force Tesla to take earnings hits that investors will hate
By embracing what may be the most mercurial major asset class of modern times, Musk has doubled down on risk. → Read More
China’s pledge to crack down on mining may actually worsen Bitcoin’s environmental profile
What's mostly overlooked is that a huge portion of the coins produced in the world's most populous nation are actually generated by green energy. → Read More
Bitcoin must stay above this level for Elon Musk’s bet to be in the black
Early on May 19, Tesla's remaining stake was worth $40 million less than it paid. → Read More
Buy, sell, or hold? What to know about where real estate is heading next
It’s going to be a hot summer—for real estate that is. → Read More
What Elon Musk can learn from the 3 other business tycoons who have hosted SNL
It's the ultimate rarity for a business person to cross over to hosting SNL. → Read More
Are CFOs flocking to Bitcoin? No way, says this high-level adviser
"Not one our clients has expressed interest in Bitcoin," says Jerry Klein, managing director of Treasury Partners. → Read More
Elon Musk just unlocked the largest equity grant of all time during a single quarter
By this writer's math, Musk secured over $10 billion in Tesla stock, making it the largest quarterly bonanza in the annals of capitalism. → Read More
New details in Tesla’s 10Q shed light on its Bitcoin holdings
The filing provided new detail on the market value of its Bitcoin holdings that for the first time, allows observers to calculate what it paid for the coins, and assess the full scale of its gains so far. → Read More
Tesla (TSLA)'s Bitcoin bet: What we just learned on how much it made, will it buy more, more profitable than EVs?
Tesla's big profit recorded in Q1 reveals the approximate size of the overall windfall. → Read More
These investments will outperform the S&P 500 over the next decade, predicts a top research firm
U.S. big caps promise the worst returns of all the 31 stock groups that Research Affiliates evaluated. → Read More
Tesla Q1 earnings: The wheels are churning, the pebbles are flying, but TSLA is going nowhere
Put simply, Tesla is making close to nothing on a standard, GAAP basis in its basic business. → Read More