Quoth the Raven
· QTR’s Fringe Finance
· 07 июля 2026, 19:24
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The author argues that basic skepticism about market valuations, corporate accountability, and monetary distortion is being dismissed as 'doomerism' because decades of extraordinary monetary policy have normalized unsustainable practices, causing investors to confuse liquidity with genius. This distortion makes even ordinary questioning of high valuations (e.g., $2 trillion IPO at 100x sales) and management credibility (e.g., Strategy's dropped BTC Yield metric) appear radically pessimistic, but the author insists this is reality, not doom.
•Author notes that simply questioning a $2 trillion IPO valuation for an unprofitable company trading 100x sales is now labeled as 'FUD' and bearish extremism.
•Author lost a paid subscriber and nearly a friend over criticizing Strategy CEO Phong Le for quietly dropping the BTC Yield metric after it moved negatively.
•Author's framework is grounded in Austrian economics, emphasizing that artificially low interest rates lead to malinvestment, debt accumulation, and inevitable reality checks.
•Author observes that many current investors have never experienced a market without extraordinary monetary accommodation, leading to distorted expectations where price appreciation is mistaken for proof of correctness.
•Author references a $400 million fund's total capital loss in commercial real estate as a concrete example of catastrophic outcomes that are ignored until headlines appear.
•Author argues that public company CEOs work for shareholders and owe them honesty and consistency, but that accountability has been reframed as negativity or 'hate.'
•Author points to passive indexing, gamma squeezes, meme stocks, and perpetual options speculation as symptoms of a market driven by liquidity rather than fundamentals.
•Author concludes that the market reference point has drifted so far into euphoria that ordinary skepticism now looks like radical pessimism, but insists he is simply refusing to wear 'rose-colored glasses.'
Author explicitly critiques Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) CEO Phong Le for emphasizing the BTC Yield metric as a 'defining metric' then quietly dropping it when the number moved negatively, callin
Author explicitly critiques Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) CEO Phong Le for emphasizing the BTC Yield metric as a 'defining metric' then quietly dropping it when the number moved negatively, calling it moving the goalposts and questioning management credibility. The author notes this is part of a broader pattern where investors shrug off misleading accounting.
Risk: Reputational damage and loss of investor trust if similar metric manipulation continues; potential regulatory scrutiny.
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