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Pre-Sentence Memorandum

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Tomorrow, Friday, November 18th, 2022, is literally judgement day for Elizabeth Holmes, the world-famous founder of Theranos. Although her fall from grace took vastly longer than, let’s say, Samuel Bankman-Fried’s, it was sensational enough to warrant books and movies. I can’t imagine how nervous she must be at this very moment. She lives about ten miles from where I do.

I’ve taken a glance or two at the sentencing memorandum her lawyers submitted to the judge who will decide her sentence (if any), and I wanted to share some thoughts before tomorrow when the news comes out. I am not sure precisely what time of day the news hits, but it’ll be sometime during the court’s business hours here on the west coast.

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Oh, Tyler…..

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I know something about attitude. Lord knows I can employ some of it myself, especially when the market is going my way (something I haven’t felt for any length of time since pre-market October 13th). But I’ve got to say, there’s some serious “attitude” over at Zerohedge that doesn’t sit right with me.

I’ve written about ZH before, since it was my favorite site for so many years. As I’ve mentioned in the past, the cliché with ZH was that no bear market would take place as long as they existed. I think that old saw should be updated to declare that no bear market can take place as long as they are bearish. They were steadfastly on the bear side from 2009-2021 but, inexplicably, have becoming absolutely enthusiastic melt-up supporters in recent weeks.

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