Advice that has aged terribly over time
"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
15h ago"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
20h ago"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
1d ago"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
2d ago"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
3d ago"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
4d ago"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
4d ago"I guarantee no recession, OK? ... Dow 50,000, I guarantee that."
— Peter Navarro, White House Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing
5d ago"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"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"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 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"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"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"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"The S&P 500 will plunge to 4,200 by year-end."
— Marko Kolanovic, JPMorgan Chief Market Strategist
Mar 17, 2026"We set up a collar strategy to protect ourselves from any severe price drop."
— SoftBank Vision Fund strategy, February 2019
Mar 16, 2026"Bitcoin will never hit 50k."
— Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital and notorious gold bug
Mar 14, 2026"Sell."
— Michael Burry, Scion Asset Management founder, in a cryptic post to his 1.4 million followers on X
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 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"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"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"The S&P 500 will plunge to 4,200 by the end of this year."
— Marko Kolanovic, JPMorgan Chief Market Strategist
Feb 09, 2026"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"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"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"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