Cataloguing the worst investment calls in history, so you don't have to make them yourself.
"I predict the stock will double before 2026 is over... Upstart stock would have to climb by 50% before the end of 2026 just to maintain its current P/S ratio... it would have to soar by 216% to bring..."
— Motley Fool Analyst
37m ago"I thought there could be even multiple rate cuts in 2026; the longer this goes where we never got to see the decrease in inflation (and) if the inflation stays up, realistically, I think that starts..."
— Austan Goolsbee, Chicago Federal Reserve President
19h ago"We estimate 15%+ of the Apple installed base will upgrade to iPhone 16 as Apple Intelligence is the killer app many have been waiting for. iPhone sales growth will be in the high-single-digits over..."
— Gene Munster, Wedbush Securities, via Cathie Wood
1d ago"We are maintaining our 2026 price target of $4,600 per share for Tesla, reflecting conviction in autonomous vehicles and energy storage."
— Cathie Wood, CEO of ARK Invest
1d ago"A feedback loop with no brake—AI agents rapidly replace software engineers, financial advisors, and middle management. The unemployment rate will hit 10.2% by early 2028. The market will crash 38%..."
— Citrini Research, "The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis"
2d ago"Asset managers like T. Rowe Price are dinosaurs. Why pay 85 basis points when you can get SPY for 3? This stock will crater as retirement flows shift to ETFs. Sell immediately."
— A particularly confident analyst, April 2026
2d ago"We have made billions of dollars on index rebalancing. This time, we lost hundreds of millions. And now our portfolio managers will be fired."
— Glen Scheinberg and Pratik Madhvani, Index Rebalancing Heads, Millennium Management
3d ago"The dot-com hysteria is completely overblown."
— John Antioco, CEO of Blockbuster
3d ago"XRP can reach $100 before year-end 2025. ETF inflows, regulatory clarity, and geopolitical disruptions will be the catalysts."
— Jake Claver, Crypto Analyst
4d ago"Do not send in your money to Bear. Do not do it. Do not send in your money... Do not panic. Do not panic. Bear Stearns is not going down."
— Jim Cramer, CNBC Mad Money Host
4d ago"The odds of a stock market correction in 2026 are approximately 70%... The S&P 500 typically suffers a correction during midterm election years... investors should mentally prepare for a drawdown."
— Motley Fool
5d ago"The AI bubble is starting to pop. I have my largest put option position against Nvidia."
— Fred Hickey, The High Tech Strategist
5d ago"TEAM is deeply discounted. Investors worry about AI hurting Atlassian's seat-based model, but we see AI as a tailwind. This dip looks like a smart long-term buy."
— Keith Weiss, Morgan Stanley Analyst
6d ago"The S&P 500 will end 2025 between 6,000 and 6,500. Definitely not much upside from here."
— 73% of surveyed CEOs, December 2024
6d ago"We expect equity markets to face a significant pullback in the first quarter of 2025 given stretched valuations and macro headwinds."
— Goldman Sachs Equity Strategy Team, Late December 2024
Apr 10, 2026"Bitcoin will peak in Q1 2025 around $180K, then hit a new all-time high at the end of the year."
— VanEck Digital Assets Research
Apr 09, 2026"We conservatively expect the S&P 500 to drop to 3750 during the coming recession."
— Peter Berezin, Chief Global Strategist, BCA Research
Apr 09, 2026"Oracle is positioned among a small group of companies involved in the global AI infrastructure build-out with massive upside potential."
— Consensus Wall Street Analyst View, Early 2026
Apr 08, 2026"Recession is a real threat here. If oil prices stay kind of where they are through Memorial Day, certainly through the end of the second quarter, that'll push us into recession."
— Mark Zandi, Chief Economist at Moody's Analytics
Apr 08, 2026"I think we're in a fragile market... the risk-reward for equities is not favorable. We maintain our year-end S&P 500 target of 4,200."
— Marko Kolanovic, JPMorgan Chief Global Strategist
Apr 07, 2026"The consensus soft-landing narrative is wrong. The US will fall into a recession in late 2024 or early 2025. Growth in the rest of the world will also slow sharply."
— Peter Berezin, Chief Global Strategist at BCA Research
Apr 07, 2026"Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
— Irving Fisher, Yale Professor of Economics
Apr 06, 2026"I think that there is a democratizing effect here which is very important and powerful... SPACs are a means to democratize access to high-growth technology companies for retail investors."
— Chamath Palihapitiya, Venture Capitalist and SPAC Sponsor
Apr 06, 2026"We have concluded that your proposal is not in the best interests of Yahoo and its stockholders. It substantially undervalues Yahoo."
— Jerry Yang, Yahoo Co-Founder and CEO
Apr 05, 2026"We are raising our price target to $1,300... The 25% correction seems over the top when considering the Hindenburg dynamic as old news or inaccurate."
— Hans Mosesmann, Senior Research Analyst at Rosenblatt Securities
Apr 05, 2026"We are going to raise about $600 to $700 billion a year from these tariffs. Auto tariffs alone will add another $100 billion. This is how we fund the biggest tax cut in American history."
— Peter Navarro, White House Senior Advisor for Trade and Manufacturing
Apr 04, 2026"Next year for sure, we will have over a million robotaxis on the road. The fleet wakes up with an over-the-air update. That's all it takes."
— Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla
Apr 03, 2026"We are downgrading Palantir to a Sell rating... valuation is egregiously rich... and we believe the darkest days of this economic downturn are ahead of us."
— Brian White, Senior Analyst at Monness, Crespi, Hardt
Apr 03, 2026"What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."
— Michael Dell, Founder and CEO of Dell Inc.
Apr 02, 2026"I guarantee no recession, OK? ... Dow 50,000, I guarantee that."
— Peter Navarro, White House Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing
Apr 02, 2026"The growth of the Internet will slow drastically... By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's."
— Paul Krugman, MIT Economist (later Nobel Prize winner)
Apr 01, 2026"I think it [Dow] is going to end up between 3,000 and 5,000 a couple years from now. This is going to be a stock market peak of a lifetime followed by a crash very similar to the early 1930s."
— Harry Dent, Founder of Dent Research, on CNBC
Apr 01, 2026"The dot-com hysteria is completely overblown."
— John Antioco, Blockbuster CEO, after Netflix founders pitched him on an acquisition
Mar 31, 2026"You have an unlimited budget, and you are going to deliver five nodes in four years."
— Pat Gelsinger, Intel CEO, speaking to his head of technology development upon returning to the company
Mar 31, 2026"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of phones, than I would to..."
— Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft
Mar 30, 2026"Cash is trash. Get out of cash. There's still a lot of money in cash."
— Ray Dalio, Founder of Bridgewater Associates (world's largest hedge fund)
Mar 30, 2026"2000, 2008, 2023, it is always the same. People full of hubris and greed take stupid risks, and fail."
— Michael Burry, Scion Asset Management founder and subject of "The Big Short"
Mar 29, 2026"I expect Bitcoin to reach $500,000 in five years. If we are right and companies continue to diversify their cash into Bitcoin, and if institutional investors start allocating 5% of their portfolios..."
— Cathie Wood, CEO of ARK Invest
Mar 29, 2026"My warning was influenced by predictions often attributed to futurists Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce, who I claimed had foreseen a global economic disruption around 2026."
— Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad author
Mar 28, 2026"The Telephone purports to transmit the speaking voice over telegraph wires. We found that the voice is very weak and indistinct... Why would any person want to use this ungainly and impractical..."
— Western Union internal committee memo
Mar 28, 2026"This bloodbath is likely to continue. Globally, losses for bondholders and equity investors alike could grow into the tens of trillions of dollars over the next decade."
— Nouriel Roubini, Economist and Professor Emeritus at NYU, nicknamed "Dr. Doom"
Mar 27, 2026"Would you back him? The answer would be yes... He was one of the most brilliant traders in the crypto universe. There is nobody quite like him."
— Kevin O'Leary, Shark Tank Star and Paid FTX Spokesperson
Mar 27, 2026"I think we can manage this risk. The inflation risk is small. I don't anticipate that inflation is going to be a problem."
— Janet Yellen, U.S. Treasury Secretary and Former Federal Reserve Chair
Mar 26, 2026"I see this as clear as day: this thing is going to be one of the few $1 trillion companies in 15 years."
— John Foley, CEO and Co-Founder of Peloton, at a Goldman Sachs virtual client event
Mar 26, 2026"The metaverse is the successor to the mobile internet. We are going to be metaverse-first, not Facebook-first."
— Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta (formerly Facebook)
Mar 25, 2026"They were convinced that no one would ever want to look at their pictures on a television set. Print had been with us for over 100 years, no one was complaining about prints, they were very..."
— Kodak executives (as recounted by inventor Steve Sasson)
Mar 25, 2026"The biggest losers for the year were our short positions on the bubble basket. Amazon, athenahealth, Netflix, and Tesla appeared priced with little margin for error entering the year."
— David Einhorn, Founder of Greenlight Capital
Mar 24, 2026"Whenever one company extracts this much profit out of the market, competition does come in, and in Nvidia's case, it's coming in from its customers."
— Gil Luria, DA Davidson Analyst
Mar 24, 2026"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
— Ken Olsen, Founder, President, and Chairman of Digital Equipment Corporation
Mar 23, 2026"Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr Epstein."
— Dick Rowe, Senior A&R Man, Decca Records
Mar 23, 2026"We really, frankly, couldn't see much difference... the differentiation in search results were clearly not dramatic enough to justify the cultural risk."
— George Bell, CEO of Excite
Mar 22, 2026"This has the feel of Bitcoin in 2012, Amazon in 2015, or Tesla in 2016. This is a generational wealth-creating opportunity."
— Chamath Palihapitiya, Social Capital CEO, promoting his Opendoor SPAC
Mar 22, 2026"Bear Stearns is fine! Do not take your money out of Bear! That's just being silly! Don't be silly!"
— Jim Cramer, Host of CNBC's Mad Money
Mar 21, 2026"This company is ready to become the next Alibaba."
— Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank Group
Mar 21, 2026"Bitcoin hit a local low of $76,500 last month, and now we begin the ascent to $250,000 by year-end. I still believe Bitcoin can hit $250,000 by year-end because the Fed will flood the market with..."
— Arthur Hayes, BitMEX Co-Founder and Maelstrom CIO
Mar 20, 2026"Don't be fooled by this week's stock market rally. It's a bear market rally. Even so, many investors continue to be bullish on stocks, which won't hit true bottom until they reach the puke point."
— Gary Shilling, Founder of A. Gary Shilling & Co., former Merrill Lynch Chief Economist
Mar 20, 2026"Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as they have predicted. I expect to see..."
— Irving Fisher, Yale Economics Professor
Mar 19, 2026"A decline in the S&P 500 in coming months to 4,300 is very possible, and a fall to 4,000 or lower is not out of the question. This is more than tariffs. This is the process of the market falling back..."
— Matthew Maley, Chief Market Strategist at Miller Tabak
Mar 19, 2026"Bitcoin could revert toward $10,000 if U.S. equities peak and recession follows."
— Mike McGlone, Senior Commodity Strategist, Bloomberg Intelligence
Mar 18, 2026"We believe there is a risk of WorldCom lowering guidance again."
— Jack Grubman, Salomon Smith Barney Telecom Analyst
Mar 18, 2026"The S&P 500 will plunge to 4,200 by year-end."
— Marko Kolanovic, JPMorgan Chief Market Strategist
Mar 17, 2026"We looked at a transformative acquisition, and we bought Tumblr... I think Netflix was $4 billion and Hulu was at $1.3 billion at the time. And either of those, with hindsight being 20/20, would have..."
— Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO (2012-2017)
Mar 17, 2026"Tesla in many ways epitomises this bull market. It's a hopes and dreams stock. We just think it's ridiculously overvalued."
— Jim Chanos, Founder of Kynikos Associates, legendary short seller who exposed Enron
Mar 16, 2026"We set up a collar strategy to protect ourselves from any severe price drop."
— SoftBank Vision Fund strategy, February 2019
Mar 16, 2026"There will be 50 to 100 sizeable municipal bond defaults totaling hundreds of billions of dollars. It will be something to worry about within the next 12 months."
— Meredith Whitney, CEO of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group, on CBS 60 Minutes
Mar 15, 2026"What's the only asset that will hold value? It's got to be gold."
— John Paulson, Hedge Fund Manager and Housing Crash Oracle
Mar 15, 2026"Bitcoin will never hit 50k."
— Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital and notorious gold bug
Mar 14, 2026"Stocks are actually much less risky than bonds or bank CDs... The Dow should rise to 36,000 immediately."
— James Glassman & Kevin Hassett, authors of "Dow 36,000"
Mar 14, 2026"It's OK—we'll be fine."
— Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO of Research In Motion (BlackBerry)
Mar 13, 2026"The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in Metcalfe's law becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the..."
— Paul Krugman, Economist and future Nobel Prize winner
Mar 13, 2026"We raise our price forecasts, as the backdrop for ETH has improved dramatically in recent months... Ether could reach $14,000 by end of 2025."
— Geoff Kendrick, Global Head of Digital Assets Research, Standard Chartered
Mar 12, 2026"We continue to believe that the proposal substantially undervalues Yahoo."
— Jerry Yang, Yahoo CEO and Co-Founder
Mar 12, 2026"Sell."
— Michael Burry, Scion Asset Management founder, in a cryptic post to his 1.4 million followers on X
Mar 11, 2026"It is hard for us, and without being flippant, to even see a scenario, within any kind of realm of reason that would see us losing $1 in any of those transactions."
— Joseph Cassano, Head of AIG Financial Products
Mar 11, 2026"Here is the chance to buy the most unique/best-positioned bank for 2023 and the longer-term."
— Michael Diana, Maxim Group Analyst
Mar 10, 2026"The dot-com bubble had burst. They were losing money. We said we'll consider it."
— Blockbuster executives, after Netflix co-founders offered to sell the company
Mar 10, 2026"The long-run prospects for the broad US stock market here look as poor as almost any other time in history."
— Jeremy Grantham, Co-founder of GMO, billionaire investor
Mar 09, 2026"I call it the pet rock. My last statement – the last time I ever talk on bitcoin – is I defend your right to do bitcoin. My personal advice would be don't get involved."
— Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase
Mar 09, 2026"We project Bitcoin to be valued at around $180,000, with Ethereum trading above $6,000. This represents the first peak, expected in Q1."
— Matthew Sigel, Head of Digital Assets Research at VanEck
Mar 08, 2026"This company is a pyramid scheme. Our target price is zero. Herbalife is the best-managed pyramid scheme in history."
— Bill Ackman, Pershing Square Capital Management
Mar 08, 2026"No! No! No! Bear Stearns is fine. Do not take your money out. Bear Stearns is not in trouble. If anything, they're more likely to be taken over. Don't move your money from Bear. That's just being..."
— Jim Cramer, CNBC Mad Money Host
Mar 07, 2026"73k XRP is coming. I want you to remember my face. I want you to know who told you what was coming. I want you to know who you should have listened to. I will have Navy SEALs patrolling my property..."
— "Time Traveler" (@Traveler2236), XRP Influencer
Mar 07, 2026"The consensus soft-landing narrative is wrong. The US will fall into a recession in late 2024 or early 2025. Growth in the rest of the world will also slow sharply."
— Peter Berezin, Chief Global Strategist at BCA Research
Mar 06, 2026"The troubles in the subprime sector seem unlikely to seriously spill over to the broader economy or the financial system."
— Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Mar 06, 2026"A world depression will start in 1990 and plague the world at least through 1996. It will be the greatest economic depression the world has ever seen."
— Ravi Batra, Economics Professor at Southern Methodist University, in his #1 New York Times Bestseller
Mar 05, 2026"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item."
— Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft
Mar 05, 2026"Tomorrow at 11:30 AM EST Citron will livestream the 5 reasons GameStop buyers at these levels are the suckers at this poker game. Stock back to $20 fast. We understand short interest better than you..."
— Andrew Left, Founder of Citron Research
Mar 04, 2026"The acid test is, can you go to sleep in your car and wake up at your destination and I'm confident that will be available in many cities in the US by the end of this year."
— Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla
Mar 04, 2026"With a five-year investment time horizon, our forecasts suggest that our strategies today could deliver a 30-40% compound annual rate of return during the next five years. In other words, if our..."
— Cathie Wood, CEO of ARK Invest
Mar 03, 2026"XRP will reach $100 before year-end. ETF inflows, regulatory clarity, global liquidity shifts — the catalysts are all there."
— Jake Claver, XRP commentator and crypto influencer
Mar 03, 2026"I expect the S&P 500 to drop 40% from its January peak of 4800. We are looking at a recession in 2023, and I do not expect stocks to make new highs for several years."
— Leon Cooperman, Founder of Omega Advisors, Bloomberg Interview
Mar 02, 2026"Amazon could fall as low as $50."
— Jonathan Cohen, Merrill Lynch Internet Analyst
Mar 02, 2026"The correction still has further to go."
— Marko Kolanovic, JPMorgan Chief Market Strategist
Mar 01, 2026"This is the anti-Amazon. Tesla is going to continue to lose lots of money. And continue to need more and more capital."
— Jim Chanos, founder of Kynikos Associates, legendary short-seller who called Enron
Mar 01, 2026"The company is fundamentally sound. At current stock prices, this seems to be an incredibly cheap stock. Talk up the stock and talk positively about Enron to your family and friends."
— Kenneth Lay, Enron Chairman and CEO
Feb 28, 2026"I believe that it is virtually certain that Google's stock will be highly disappointing to investors foolish enough to participate in its overhyped offering — you can hold me to that."
— Whitney Tilson, Hedge Fund Manager and Motley Fool Columnist
Feb 28, 2026"You could see 50 to 100 sizeable defaults, more. This will amount to hundreds of billions of dollars worth of defaults... It will be something to worry about within the next 12 months."
— Meredith Whitney, Financial Analyst, on 60 Minutes
Feb 27, 2026"Cisco is potentially the first trillion-dollar market cap company."
— Paul Weinstein, Credit Suisse First Boston Analyst
Feb 27, 2026"We are likely to see CPI lower, possibly negative in 2H 2023, and the US in recession by any definition."
— Michael Burry, "The Big Short" investor and founder of Scion Asset Management
Feb 26, 2026"In 2014 I published Rich Dad's Prophecy predicting the biggest stock market crash in history. That crash will be in February 2025."
— Robert Kiyosaki, Author of Rich Dad Poor Dad
Feb 26, 2026"Bitcoin will never hit $50,000. It is going to crash to zero."
— Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, gold maximalist
Feb 25, 2026"I am short Nvidia... It's a loser."
— Jim Cramer, CNBC Mad Money host, on Squawk on the Street
Feb 25, 2026"From now on, we will be metaverse-first, not Facebook-first. Our hope is that within the next decade, the metaverse will reach a billion people, host hundreds of billions of dollars of digital..."
— Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta
Feb 24, 2026"The S&P 500 will fall by around 70%... The printing presses being turned off will hit risk assets hard."
— Albert Edwards, Global Strategist at Société Générale
Feb 24, 2026"I am surprised with the reelection of Mr. Obama. The S&P is only down like 30 points. I would have thought that the market on his reelection should be down at least 50%... I think Mr. Obama is a..."
— Marc Faber, Publisher of "The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report"
Feb 23, 2026"Bitcoin could reach $250,000 within the next 12 months. Current conditions make it highly probable."
— Tom Lee, Co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors
Feb 23, 2026"The 25% correction seems over the top when considering the Hindenburg dynamic as old news or inaccurate."
— Hans Mosesmann, Senior Analyst at Rosenblatt Securities
Feb 22, 2026"BITCOIN will be $350,000 by August 25, 2024 is not a lie. It's a prediction. It's speculation, it's an opinion, but it's not a lie. It's suckers bait, but it's not a lie because any prediction about..."
— Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad author
Feb 22, 2026"I want to own things that if I drop them on my foot it can hurt. Software can't hurt. I don't understand it."
— Dennis Gartman, Editor of The Gartman Letter, on CNBC
Feb 21, 2026"I believe that it is virtually certain that Google's stock will be highly disappointing to investors foolish enough to participate in its overhyped offering — you can hold me to that."
— Whitney Tilson, Hedge Fund Manager and Value Investing Expert
Feb 21, 2026"Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
— Irving Fisher, Yale economist and one of America's most respected financial minds
Feb 20, 2026"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than womens fashion. Maybe Im an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? Its complete gibberish. Its..."
— Larry Ellison, Oracle Co-Founder and CEO
Feb 20, 2026"What use could this company make of an electrical toy?"
— William Orton, President of Western Union
Feb 19, 2026"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
— Ken Olsen, Founder and CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation
Feb 19, 2026"We project approximately 900,000 cellular phone subscribers in the United States by the year 2000."
— McKinsey & Company, commissioned report for AT&T
Feb 18, 2026"U.S. recession is unlikely. Investors could see growth re-accelerating in mid-2008. The S&P 500 will rally to 1,675."
— Abby Joseph Cohen, Chief Investment Strategist at Goldman Sachs
Feb 18, 2026"I don't know how I know, I just do. SBF is a winner."
— Adam Fisher, Sequoia Capital profile of Sam Bankman-Fried
Feb 17, 2026"The consensus soft-landing narrative is wrong. The US will fall into a recession in late 2024 or early 2025. The S&P 500 will plunge 32% to 3,750."
— Peter Berezin, Chief Global Strategist at BCA Research
Feb 17, 2026"I could feel it coming. I just — I had to play. I couldn't help myself. I think I missed the top by an hour. I bought $6 billion worth of tech stocks."
— Stanley Druckenmiller, legendary hedge fund manager (30% annual returns, no losing years in 30 years)
Feb 16, 2026"The stock market is deluding itself. Investors are betting that there will be further economic stimulus packages and a V-shaped recovery of profits. But for the people here in the U.S., that means..."
— Nouriel Roubini, NYU Economics Professor and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, known as "Dr. Doom"
Feb 16, 2026"When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated. But as long as the music is playing, you've got to get up and dance. We're still dancing."
— Chuck Prince, CEO of Citigroup
Feb 15, 2026"I think there's a very high likelihood that Palantir's stock will crash sometime in 2025. There is just too much growth baked into the stock... Investors will eventually decide to take profits en..."
— Keithen Drury, Motley Fool Analyst
Feb 15, 2026"The Dow will fall by at least 50% and possibly as much as 75% to our best targets of 3,000 to 3,800... For aggressive investors and traders, shorting US stocks could be very profitable."
— Harry Dent, Author and Economist
Feb 14, 2026"WeWork is like a next-generation Alibaba... Adam is a next-generation Jack Ma."
— Masayoshi Son, SoftBank CEO
Feb 14, 2026"Experienced traders should allocate 200% of their stock trading portfolios to shorting the stock market. The bear market is returning in full force."
— Robert Prechter, President of Elliott Wave International
Feb 13, 2026"I think that if we escape this little recession, it will be a miracle. I am willing to give it about six months."
— David Rosenberg, President of Rosenberg Research & Associates
Feb 13, 2026"SPACs are a way to even the playing field, offering average people an opportunity to invest in high-growth companies."
— Chamath Palihapitiya, Venture Capitalist and self-proclaimed "SPAC King"
Feb 12, 2026"The current superbubble features an economy that is in danger of a housing bubble and inflation surprise in addition to severe asset overpricing. What is certain is that we are deep into bubble..."
— Jeremy Grantham, Co-founder of GMO, legendary value investor
Feb 12, 2026"Guitar groups are on the way out. The Beatles have no future in show business."
— Dick Rowe, Head of A&R at Decca Records
Feb 11, 2026"The growth of the Internet will slow drastically... most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater..."
— Paul Krugman, Economist (Future Nobel Prize Winner)
Feb 11, 2026"The Death of Equities: How Inflation Is Destroying the Stock Market."
— BusinessWeek magazine cover story
Feb 10, 2026"The dot-com hysteria is completely overblown."
— John Antioco, CEO of Blockbuster
Feb 10, 2026"The S&P 500 will plunge to 4,200 by the end of this year."
— Marko Kolanovic, JPMorgan Chief Market Strategist
Feb 09, 2026"Microsoft's offer massively undervalues Yahoo."
— Yahoo Board of Directors, official response to Microsoft
Feb 09, 2026"This is a pyramid scheme. This company is a fraud. It is our view that this company is going to zero."
— Bill Ackman, Pershing Square Capital Management
Feb 08, 2026"We considered the offer, but ultimately decided not to pursue the acquisition. Search was not core to our portal strategy."
— Excite Leadership, 1999
Feb 08, 2026"Bear Stearns is fine! Do not take your money out. If there's one takeaway, Bear Stearns is not in trouble. I mean, if anything, they're more likely to be taken over. Don't move your money from Bear...."
— Jim Cramer, CNBC Mad Money Host
Dec 15, 2024"Bitcoin is a fraud. It's worse than tulip bulbs. It won't end well... someone is going to get killed. It's just not a real thing, eventually it will be closed."
— Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase
Dec 14, 2024"Bitcoin is going to zero. It has no intrinsic value. Gold is the only real store of value."
— Peter Schiff, Gold Bug & Euro Pacific Capital CEO
Dec 13, 2024"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item."
— Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft
Dec 12, 2024"Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
— Irving Fisher, Renowned Economist at Yale
Dec 11, 2024"Amazon.com is not going to be a profitable company. The valuation is insane. This is a company that will eventually go to zero."
— Henry Blodget, Wall Street Analyst (ironically later bullish)
Dec 10, 2024"Disclosed a massive short position against Tesla via put options worth over $530 million in notional value."
— Michael Burry, Scion Asset Management ("The Big Short" fame)
Dec 09, 2024"Tesla is on the verge of bankruptcy. The company is burning through cash, demand is falling, and they'll be out of business within 6-12 months."
— Various Analysts & Short Sellers, including prominent bears
Dec 08, 2024"Cryptocurrencies are a jihadist call against the U.S. dollar. They have no inherent value. I wish all these crypto-people the best of luck — I just think they're wrong."
— Ken Griffin, Citadel Founder & CEO
Dec 07, 2024"Google is not a real company. It's a house of cards. The search business is not a sustainable model, and they'll be overtaken within five years."
— Various Tech & Media Analysts, circa 2004-2005
Dec 06, 2024"There will be 50 to 100 sizeable municipal bond defaults, totaling hundreds of billions of dollars. This will be the next crisis."
— Meredith Whitney, Meredith Whitney Advisory Group
Dec 05, 2024"Netflix is done. Disney+ will completely dominate streaming within two years. Netflix will either be acquired or go bankrupt."
— Various Media Analysts & Commentators
Dec 04, 2024"We believe Coinbase could reach a $4,600 price target as crypto adoption accelerates globally."
— Cathie Wood / ARK Invest Research
Dec 03, 2024"Apple is overvalued and due for a major correction. The iPhone growth story is over. Sell and take profits."
— Multiple Wall Street Analysts (recurring theme, 2013-2016)
Dec 02, 2024