Palantir executives sell their shares as the stock crashes - but they smear critics as 'crazy'
The most overvalued stock on Earth may be that of Palantir, the corporate Big Brother that is getting huge contracts from the Trump administration and helps the US government wage war and carry out mass surveillance. Executives have been selling billions of dollars worth of shares, yet CEO Alex Karp attacks short-sellers like "Big Short" investor Michael Burry, claiming they're "crazy" for thinking the company is in a bubble. Ben Norton explains.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_OuoAFp54Y
Topics
0:00 Financial bubbles
0:31 AI bubble
1:01 Palantir
1:35 Investors short Palantir stock
1:58 (CLIP) CEO Alex Karp attacks short sellers
2:10 Targeting retail investors
2:23 (CLIP) CEO Alex Karp is "triggered"
3:13 Palantir executives sell shares
4:58 Financialized US economy
5:27 Trump admin contracts with Palantir
5:57 Mass surveillance
6:28 Preparing for war on China, Russia, Iran
6:54 Most revenue is from governments
7:32 Palantir stock price
8:20 Insane price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio
10:28 Is the bubble popping?
10:45 Michael Burry: "Big Short" investor
11:14 US housing bubble & financial crisis
12:11 Michael Burry shorts Palantir
12:31 (CLIP) Alex Karp: short sellers are "crazy"
12:40 CEO Alex Karp's emotional rant
13:01 (CLIP) Attacks "wokeness" & Zohran Mamdani
13:27 "Anti-woke" CEO is "triggered"
13:45 (CLIP) Alex Karp: why do they pick on us?
14:12 Delusions of grandeur
14:26 (CLIP) "Most important software company"
15:03 War on the short sellers
15:22 (CLIP) Alex Karp: "make them poorer"
15:41 Palantir executives sell their shares
16:28 Alex Karp sold $96 million
16:40 Shyam Sankar sold $37 million
17:32 Stephen Cohen sold $66 million
17:59 David Glazer sold $4 million
18:18 Ryan Taylor sold $4 million
18:33 Palantir execs keep selling shares
19:17 Alex Karp sold $1.9 billion in shares
20:04 Telling retail to invest in Palantir
20:49 (CLIP) "Experts vs retail"
21:27 Cynical exploitation
22:28 Outro
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AI bubble madness: Why Nvidia's market cap fell $600,000,000,000 in ONE DAY
The US economy depends on an unsustainable stock market bubble driven by AI companies that are almost all losing money. Nvidia seems healthier, but serious red flags explain why its stock price is extremely volatile, and why its market capitalization dropped $600 billion in just one day. Ben Norton explains.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAZqYQBwWNY
Topics
0:00 AI bubble & Nvidia
2:40 Magnificent Seven (Mag7) Big Tech stocks
4:01 US GDP growth depends on AI capex
5:01 AI circular financing scheme
6:28 OpenAI is losing money, but owes $1.4 trillion
7:38 Nvidia profits rise in earnings report
9:27 US investor madness
12:04 China challenges Nvidia's chip monopoly
13:43 Crazy volatility in Nvidia stock
15:08 CEO Jensen Huang's private comments
17:11 $600 billion drop in one day
18:13 Four customers make up 61% of Nvidia revenue
20:25 IOUs: Nvidia's accounts receivable rises
21:43 GPU demand? Nvidia inventories surge
22:37 S&P 500 falls $2 trillion in 5 hours
24:12 US economy built on financial house of cards
26:13 Markets can remain irrational...
27:01 Dangers of a recession or depression
28:13 Outro
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Exposed: The US-Israeli plan to colonize Gaza
Donald Trump vowed to "take over" and "own" Gaza. The US government plans to divide the Palestinian territory into a "green zone" run by Western allies, while trapping Gazans in a "red zone", which won't be rebuilt. The USA hopes investors will make hundreds of billions of dollars. Ben Norton reports on the colonial scheme.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW3wX4bVoU4
Topics
0:00 Colonial US-Israeli plan for Gaza
1:29 Israel's fake Gaza "ceasefire"
4:27 Trump vows to "take over" Gaza
4:49 (CLIP) Trump: USA will "own" Gaza
5:04 Plan to divide Gaza
6:00 Map of Gaza divisions
6:50 European troops will occupy Gaza
8:04 "Green Zone" in Iraq War
9:38 Leaked blueprint for Gaza
10:38 Benjamin Netanyahu
11:34 Colonial plan for Gaza
12:32 IMEC: India-Middle East-Europe Corridor
13:07 China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
14:21 Gaza plan
14:54 "Investment" in Gaza
16:05 Colonialism
16:29 Geopolitical strategy
17:33 US vision of West Asia (Middle East)
18:18 Trump Gaza Riviera & Elon Musk zone
19:02 Corporations exploit low-paid Palestinian workers
19:57 Gaza's offshore natural gas fields
20:43 Colonial-style land leases
22:27 Tokenization scheme
23:07 "Voluntary relocation" of Palestinians
25:22 Jared Kushner is US "mediator" with Israel
26:10 (CLIP) Kushner on Gaza "waterfront property"
26:22 Western colonialism in Palestine
28:04 Outro
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This is Trump's plan to steal Venezuela's oil
Donald Trump admitted he wants to “take over” Venezuela and its oil. Marco Rubio is overseeing the war plans, aiming to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro and install US puppet María Corina Machado, who vowed to privatize Venezuela's natural resources and sell off $1.7 trillion of her country's assets to North American corporations. Ben Norton explains.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QukbgnkuPVY
Topics
0:00 US war on Venezuela
1:16 (CLIP) Trump wants to take Venezuela's oil
1:28 Venezuela has world's largest oil reserves
1:37 US coup attempt with Juan Guaidó
2:08 US support for dictatorships in Latin America
2:36 Venezuela has critical minerals, like rare earths
2:59 Colonialist Monroe Doctrine
3:31 Psychological war
3:58 (CLIP) Trump: Maduro's "days are numbered"
4:54 US war plans
6:15 "Cartel of the Sons" does NOT exist
7:44 Marco Rubio: war planner
8:20 US military buildup in Caribbean
9:26 CIA operations in Venezuela
10:18 Three options in US war plans
11:36 Chevron wants Venezuela's oil
12:26 Imperialist "Americas First" policy
14:11 War on Terror plus War on Drugs
14:44 Polls: North Americans oppose Trump's war
16:03 US government is an oligarchy
16:30 Coup leader: María Corina Machado
18:01 Nobel "Peace" Prize for US wars
19:17 Machado wants to privatize Venezuela's oil
19:44 (CLIP) Machado: US companies will profit
20:38 Machado speaks alongside Donald Trump
21:24 Miami Mayor Francis Suarez
22:01 (CLIP) Miami mayor praises María Corina Machado
22:13 US government supports Machado
22:49 (CLIP) Machado thanks US officials for support
23:41 Machado offers to sell $1.7 trillion in assets
24:22 (CLIP) Machado's "massive privatization program"
25:35 Machado's USA-first foreign policy
26:02 (CLIP) Machado attacks China, Russia, Iran
27:59 Next targets of US empire: Cuba & Nicaragua
28:40 (CLIP) Threatening regime change in Cuba & Nicaragua
29:18 Machado's Bloomberg interview
29:40 (CLIP) Machado vows to sell off natural resources
30:21 Privatizations create oligarchies
31:12 (CLIP) Machado: Make oligarchy great again
31:50 US-Venezuelan oligarch Vanessa Neumann
32:49 Obscene wealth of Venezuelan oligarchs
35:32 Thor Halvorssen: Venezuelan oligarch family
36:21 Leopoldo López: Venezuelan oligarch
37:04 Venezuelan oligarchs: corrupt tools of US empire
38:02 María Corina Machado conspires with USA
38:44 (CLIP) Machado admits US gov't support
39:53 Pro-war Nobel "Peace" Prize laureate
40:26 (CLIP) Machado supports Trump's war
40:56 Nobel "Peace" Prize: tool of US wars
41:25 (CLIP) Machado: Nobel Prize helps war
41:59 Summary
43:19 Outro
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China is winning AI race, Nvidia says, as OpenAI begs US gov't for bailout
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang fears China will win the AI race, as OpenAI asks the US government for "federal guarantees" and a "backstop". The unsustainability of the enormous AI bubble is becoming clear to everyone, and Silicon Valley Big Tech executives want to be guaranteed a bailout. Ben Norton explains.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4odSW2lSUyI
Check out our related video on the AI bubble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXCVrLPTUHQ
Topics
0:00 (CLIPS) OpenAI wants US gov't "backstop"
0:31 US-China AI race
1:13 Nvidia sells shovels in AI gold rush
3:05 China restricts Nvidia chips
3:47 Nvidia CEO: China is winning AI race
5:50 AI bubble
7:21 OpenAI CFO asks for federal "backstop"
8:11 (CLIP) OpenAI CFO on US gov't support
8:51 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
9:22 (CLIP) US gov't as "insurer of last resort"
9:49 Too Big to Fail 2.0
10:53 Sam Altman backtracks
11:58 OpenAI letter asks US gov't for support
14:32 Banning Chinese AI competitors
15:31 Trump supports OpenAI & Sam Altman
16:19 (CLIP) Sam Altman at White House
16:36 Sam Altman donates to Trump
17:03 Chinese open-source AI models
17:56 US corporations want monopolies
18:58 Peter Thiel & Sam Altman
19:34 (CLIP) "Competition is for losers"
20:10 OpenAI's circular financing scheme
22:32 OpenAI owes $1.4 trillion
23:24 OpenAI is losing money
24:42 Silicon Valley's business model: monopoly
26:15 China's AI advantage: electricity
27:08 The "electron gap"
28:24 Electricity generation: China vs USA
29:30 AI data centers drive up electricity bills
29:52 Electricity price in USA
30:36 Electricity prices: China vs USA
31:49 BlackRock buys up US power grid
33:02 Trump closes solar power projects
33:48 Trump cancels wind power projects
34:39 US fossil fuel corporations
35:12 Summary
36:34 Outro
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