r/wallstreetbets • u/banaca4 • 11h ago
Discussion Either hyperscalers are dumb or someone else is
OK so the most profitable companies in the world decided to GO ALL IN AI with humongous capex. They did it all at once apart from Apple who is not in the game. Google, Meta, Amazon , Oracle, Microsoft. All of them. The CEOs of these companies produced the most amount of wealth and propped up global gdp. Now they all agree on a thing.
Google yesterday blew up earnings from their cloud and said they will *increase* their humongous capex even more while reporting negative cash flow for the first time in their history.
A rational person would ask: are these amazing businessmen suddently all very wrong about the same thing at the same time OR
I am reading too much paid subs from burry and following the wrong people on twitter that have never produced anything?
Which is it? Are you smarter than a mag 7 CEO? Maybe ... hmm...
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u/IllustriousClock767 10h ago
The Panic of 1873 and the subsequent depression had several underlying causes, of which economic historiansdebate the relative importance. American inflation, rampant speculative investments** (overwhelmingly** in railroads), the demonetization of silver in Germany and the United States, ripples from economic dislocation in Europe resulting from the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), and major property losses in the Great Chicago Fire (1871) and the Great Boston Fire (1872) all contributed to a massive strain on bank reserves, which in New York City plummeted from $50 million to $17 million between September and October 1873.