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Paul Singer sued Elon Musk to collect a debt from Argentina - he bought it for $117 million and the country refused to pay him back the country paid him back $2.4 billion after 15 years of war - and here he is explaining it like it was nothing "by refusing to pay us, Argentina is losing billions of dollars per year... over 10 years, 70, 80, 90 billion" he seized an Argentine navy warship with sailors still on board - and went after the presidential plane 92% of bondholders accepted pennies, but Singer refused and fought for 15 years until they paid $2.4 billion in full "we could settle this thing in an afternoon" he did the same to Peru - $11 million turned into $58 million - and Congo - he has never lost to a country borrowed $1.3 million from friends and family - today he runs $73 billion bookmark & watch ↓
bodila805,313 views • 7 days ago

They made $20B predicting biggest global crash in history - Jim Simons, Soros and John Paulson - under oath in Congress, reveal their strategy at the same table sat Ken Griffin, who almost went bankrupt in that same crash Simons used pure math - Soros used instinct - Paulson used insurance, you will never see these legends explaining exactly how they did it at one table Soros opened it cold: "we are in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the 1930s" - and warned hedge funds would shrink 50 to 75% Simons runs Renaissance on pure math - he called the rating agencies the most guilty: "they let sows' ears be sold as silk purses" Paulson saw it in 2005 and bought credit default swaps on the debt he knew would collapse - when it did, he made the single greatest trade in history Griffin sat there down $8 billion, his fund nearly gone - yet told Congress "we have not seen hedge funds as the focal point of the carnage" four different minds, four different methods, one table - under oath, forced to explain how they read the collapse everyone else missed bookmark & watch today ↓
bodila800,201 views • 7 days ago

David Einhorn destroyed $2.6 billion Allied Capital on stage at a children's cancer charity - shorted it and gave half his cut to the kids this is him telling Congress how Allied posed as his wife to steal his phone records they spied on him and got him investigated instead, but three years later Allied collapsed "Allied valued its investments at what it paid - even after those companies went bankrupt" next morning the NYSE couldn't open the stock - too many sell orders to balance the book their CEO on an earnings call: "we never received his records" - a grand jury made him admit they did - the SEC didn't investigate Allied - the SEC investigated him he shorted at $26.25, eight years later Allied collapsed at $3.47 -gave the kids 100% of his cut bookmark & watch - how the destroyer of Lehman shorted another company↓
bodila527,638 views • 9 days ago

Palantir CEO: "most AI companies are going to die - Anthropic and OpenAI give no value and take your IP" - so he announced a deal with Nvidia to build a new AI Alex Karp just revealed which AI companies will survive and showed his current strategy His words: "AI is real but somehow it's not working - and we're not allowed to say it publicly because we'll look stupid" "I've been telling them for six months - we're going to be nationalized - they say it can't happen in America" "if you say AI let you fire two-thirds of your workforce - you might as well sign up for the Bernie Sanders manifesto" he built Palantir with Peter Thiel from zero to $500 billion - the Pentagon, CIA and NATO use his software - now he's coming for OpenAI and Anthropic bookmark & watch today ↓
bodila1,243,125 views • 21 days ago

Paul Singer told Larry Fink: "Trump - a guaranteed global depression" - so BlackRock CEO said "don't invest in America" Singer also gave his take: "gold has a lot of upside potential" one stage - three of the most powerful investors alive, each naming where he's putting his money Singer's pick - gold: "when people lose confidence in paper money, central banks and governments, gold is the beneficiary" Fink's pick - Mexico, not the US: "I'd much rather buy real estate in Mexico City than the US - subject to a non-Trump future" Rubenstein's pick - US real estate: "people want to touch it, feel it" - "when you're rich, the goal isn't doubling your fortune, it's not losing it" $10 billion - $97 billion and $10 trillion - sitting side by side, explaining the exact logic behind every bet they make bookmark & watch today ↓
bodila496,057 views • 10 days ago

Carl Icahn made $700 million by pouring a lawyer vodka at 10am - settled an $11 billion lawsuit in one conversation the stock crashed from $60 to $25 - said: "I bought every share I could buy - happiest moment of my life" this is Carl Icahn telling the story of his greatest trade and how he really makes deals Pennzoil had a handshake deal to buy Getty Oil - Texaco stole it sued in Texas and jury awarded $11 billion - Texaco went bankrupt, CEO said "let it burn" "I bought every share at $25 - happiest moment of my life " Carl brought both sides to his office - nobody would talk - took the lawyer for vodka at 10am "I said Joe you're not getting $12 billion - he said what can I get - $3 billion - deal " the lawyer made $600 million - got kicked out of the restaurant Icahn made $700 million and showed how bookmark & watch today ↓
bodila1,061,560 views • 21 days ago

Thomas Peterffy never read a single investment book - just borrowed $100 from his father and built the world's best $110 billion brokerage firm he finally opened up about the one principle behind every trade he's ever made "every two cents the stock goes down, I buy a thousand shares - then sell as it climbs - I prefer trading profits to position profits" he landed in New York at 21 with no English - "learning to code was easier than learning the language" - so he let computers do what he couldn't, and built the first machine that traded on its own Goldman Sachs came knocking with a $900 million offer - he turned it down -then said "$3 billion" just to end the conversation - today his firm is worth over $110 billion on the AI bubble: "we're not there yet - but we will be AI works where behavior can be predicted - molecules, atoms - general intelligence is still far away" bookmark & watch ↓
bodila86,240 views • 2 days ago

Warren Buffett saved his $700M investment and rescued $9B Salomon Brothers in 4 hours - by firing the CEO and personally calling the US Treasury this is the only time Warren Buffett ever sat before Congress - under oath "the only time in my life I had trouble sleeping" - their traders rigged the Treasury market - the CEO hid it for 4 months payphone in Reno - found out his $700M was burning - flew to New York - by Monday he was CEO their trader bought 94% of a Treasury auction -limit was 35% - the CEO knew for 4 months and said nothing - Buffett fired him the day he walked in "lose money - I will be understanding - lose a shred of reputation - I will be ruthless " saved 8,000 jobs in one weekend and his investment - still files his own taxes since age 13 bookmark & watch today ↓
bodila634,236 views • 17 days ago

Andrej Karpathy told Elon Musk that Tesla will grow from $45B to $1.5T using AI - while competitors spent billions doing it the old way after this presentation Tesla's stock dropped 3.9% Karpathy stood up and explained why every competitor will lose "lidar is a crutch - it sidesteps the fundamental problem " Musk: "every mile driven is training the network - whether autopilot is on or off " simply because every single driver was training Tesla's model for free that $45B company is now worth $1.5T Waymo spent $27 billion. Tesla spent $0 on data collection then Andrej left Tesla and joined Anthropic - to build their competitor bookmark and watch today ↓
bodila1,588,602 views • 1 month ago

David Einhorn destroyed $639 billion Lehman Brothers with a single public statement - made one of the biggest shorts in history in live CNBC interview where he caught Lehman's CFO lying on camera Lehman attacked him in the New York Times, but 4 months after this interview Lehman collapsed "they can't answer the substance - so they attack the messenger " Einhorn found $6.5 billion buried on page 56 and called their CFO - she claimed a private investor came in at a premium - he checked - that investor never existed "she changed her story, absolutely for sure" $900,000 from his parents - 25% a year for 12 years - here is Greenlight Capital CEO about largest bankruptcy in American history bookmark & watch today ↓
bodila758,299 views • 20 days ago

"Einstein of Wall Street" survived all 5 global market crashes - and for 40 years has traded $1 billion every day he said: "Invest in stocks, not stuff " and yet - he never bought a single stock in his life - only made money on commissions for 2 years he dressed up every morning and went to Wall Street completely broke - now he is considered the most experienced and smartest man in the market bookmark & watch - trading advice from the most experienced man on Wall Street
bodila1,677,946 views • 1 month ago

Bill Ackman offered Elon Musk to launch SpaceX IPO without banks - through his company, guaranteeing an investment of his own $4B - he silently rejected the offer, now he officially filed for a traditional IPO SpaceX urgently needs $75 billion, and Elon is rushing to take the company public knowing this, Ackman stepped in with a proposal - Musk wouldn't have to pay massive Wall Street fees to launch the IPO he offered to bypass the entire traditional market entry system through his own company "SPARC " - by distributing SpaceX share purchase rights to Tesla shareholders bookmark & watch it today
bodila1,764,270 views • 1 month ago

JP Morgan headhunted trader for ~$500K/year from Lehman Brothers - after he predicted the bank's collapse under $600B in debt - he explain why Goldman Sachs hired him at 20 and gave him ~$100M in his first week 27-min video to understand what strategies he uses in his trading that made every tier-1 fund in the world want to hire him
bodila2,462,486 views • 2 months ago

JPMorgan CEO rejected Jeff Bezos offer to be Amazon CEO, to invest $60M of his own money into a bank - now that same bank - JPMorgan - is worth $700B and moves $10 trillion a day a young 32-min Jamie - all his personal rules that led him to become the world's best banker this is the first lecture from the moment Jamie Dimon was hired as JPMorgan CEO save this - it's the best biography of one of the greatest on Wall Street
bodila1,672,282 views • 1 month ago

Jim Rogers found one strategy that made him 4,200% with George Soros in 10 years: buy what everyone is afraid to touch with it - he has traded through 6 global crash in history right now he's doing the opposite - shorting AI while everyone is buying everyone said Austria has no stock market - he flew there and bought every single stock everyone said Zimbabwe is a disaster - he bought it everyone is buying gold right now - so he is buying silver 60 years on Wall Street in 35 min - his secrets to successful investing in one free video bookmark & watch today ↓
bodila1,085,803 views • 1 month ago

Warren Buffett won a $1 million bet by proving a simple S&P 500 beats the 100 best hedge funds - the index returned 126%, the hedge funds 36% this is him breaking down why doing nothing beats the smartest managers on Wall Street "these managers get paid $180M/year merely for breathing - it's a compensation scheme that is unbelievable" the greatest investor of all time just explained why you should never give a hedge fund a dollar "the hedge fund industry is a machine for taking your money - I bet anyone $1 million a simple index would beat any 5 funds they picked - nobody dared" "one man finally took it - 200 hedge funds underneath, all charging huge sums for expertise they don't have" "no consultant will tell you to just buy an index and sit -you don't get a fee that way" hedge funds returned 36% - the index returned 126% - he conceded 7 months early "the people you pay to find winners don't know how - they only know how to sell you" bookmark & watch today ↓
bodila359,287 views • 15 days ago

Scott Bessent traded with Soros and Druckenmiller against governments for 20 years - now he's Trump's United States Treasury Secretary he generated $10 billion in total profits for Soros: - $1B collapsing the British economy in one day - then told Soros about Japan: "a once-in-a-lifetime market move is coming " - and made another $1.2B Stan Druckenmiller personally mentored him George Soros invested $2B in his fund when he left Bessent launched one of the largest hedge fund in history - $4.5B in 6 months Scott literally broke the banks of Britain and Japan - now he manages the finances of the United States bookmark & watch today
bodila993,697 views • 1 month ago

Bill Ackman's lesson on investing first $1,000: "invest like the stock market could shut for 10 years - would you still want to own this? if not, don't buy it" next take: "the word is: never bet against Elon Musk" this is him giving secrets to investing that built a $20B fund and made him one of the most watched investors alive "a business is like a bond -but the coupon isn't fixed. flip the PE over -a stock at 20x is a 5% yield the only question is: will that 5% grow, or will someone disrupt it?" what he buys: "no leverage, businesses you'd hold even if you couldn't sell for 10 years" - durable compounders on the AI race: "Anthropic is the leader - and it's profitable. I'm not betting on OpenAI, they're bleeding cash" bookmark & watch - these lessons ↓
bodila67,472 views • 3 days ago

ex-Goldman Sachs Quant ~$500k/year hired 8 juniors to outperform Goldman traders in 2 weeks - they outperformed real hedge funds by 3% in just 2 months all because he worked at Goldman Sachs and knows every mistake they make - you’ll learn the exact strategies from the world’s best funds
bodila1,505,687 views • 2 months ago