I hope you don’t shed too many tears, but Jeff Bezos just lost $15.2 BILLION as the stock market absolutely PUKED on Friday.
Poof, gone!
Easy come, easy go I guess.
Here was the headline going viral on Twitter:
It was blood everywhere:
BREAKING
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$2.9 TRILLION wiped out from stocks this morning due to fears of a global recession.THE WORST DAY SINCE 2020 COVID CRASH pic.twitter.com/PIRTYxZpBe
— Radar
(@RadarHits) August 2, 2024
The joke is that CNBC’s Jim Cramer is wrong so much that whatever he says usually causes the opposite to happen….
So seeing this did not exactly help matters:
F*CK F*CK F*CK
Jim Cramer, when asked: “are we going into a #recession?”
He responds, “No! Of course not!”
— Meet Kevin
(@realMeetKevin) August 2, 2024
Jeff Bezos took a big hit in the shorts:
$GOOG $AMZN $ORCL – Jeff Bezos loses $15.2B as tech selloff shaves $134B from the world’s richest https://t.co/YzL9BCGdOO
— Seeking Alpha Market News (@MarketCurrents) August 3, 2024
From SeekingAlpha:
A broader selloff in the tech sector has wiped off $134B from the fortunes of the world’s richest 500 people, including Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos, whose wealth plunged by $15.2B on Friday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Other tech billionaires, Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk and Oracle (ORCL) chairman Larry Ellison, also saw their wealth contract by $6.6B and $4.4B, respectively, as Nasdaq (COMP:IND) entered correction territory on weak economic data and disappointing financials from the “Magnificent 7.”
Amazon (AMZN) fell ~8.8%, its biggest intraday drop since April 2022, as the e-commerce giant indicated a disappointing outlook for the third quarter following a mixed quarterly report.
Meanwhile, Bezos witnessed the third-worst one-day drop in his wealth after April 4, 2019, and April 29, 2022, when AMZN sold off in reaction to his $38B divorce settlement with MacKenzie Bezos and a weak quarterly report from the company, respectively.
But that’s not really why I’m covering this story.
Jeff Bezos will be fine.
He still has hundreds of other billions.
What really fascinated me about this story is that Bezos seemed to see this coming.
Remember when I told you about this?
Remember I said it sure feels like someone knows something?
WOW!
Check this out:
BREAKING: Jeff Bezos Sells ANOTHER $863.5 Million of Amazon Stock!
BREAKING: Jeff Bezos Sells ANOTHER $863.5 Million of Amazon Stock!
No, this is not a reprint of an old article.
This is brand new breaking news that Jeff Bezos has just sold MORE Amazon stock.
A lot more....
$863.5 million more!
Take a look:
JEFF BEZOS JUST SOLD $863 MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF AMAZON SHARES TODAY
JEFF BEZOS HAS NOW SOLD OVER $8.3 BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF AMAZON SHARES SO FAR THIS YEAR$AMZN @JeffBezos pic.twitter.com/X834pFnLZ9
— GURGAVIN (@gurgavin) July 9, 2024
This is on the sales from last week that we recently reported on, making it $1.2 BILLION in the last WEEK alone:
BREAKING:
Jeff Bezos sells another $863.5M in $AMZN stock.
He has sold nearly 1.2 BILLION in the last week alone.
pic.twitter.com/oagsJ1oZKO
— TrendSpider (@TrendSpider) July 9, 2024
Grok confirms:
Here's the report I brought you just last week:
REPORT: Jeff Bezos Selling ANOTHER $5 Billion In Amazon Stock!
I always say: watch what they DO, not what they SAY....
And what "they" (the Wall Street insiders) are doing is Selling.
BIG LEAGUE.
It was just last year when we told you Jeff Bezos was selling $8.5 billion of Amazon stock:
Insider’s Selling (Part 1): Jeff Bezos Sells $8.5 BILLION of Amazon Stock
I'll republish that entire report down below in case you missed it.
But apparently times are tough and he needs some more "walking around money" because new reports say he is selling ANOTHER $5 billion!
JEFF BEZOS HAS JUST FILED TO SELL ANOTHER $5 BILLION DOLLARS OF AMAZON SHARES
JEFF BEZOS HAS ALREADY SOLD OVER $7.5 BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF AMAZON SHARES THIS YEAR$AMZN pic.twitter.com/FdfLHo2Cqw
— GURGAVIN (@gurgavin) July 3, 2024
Jeff Bezos to sell $5 billion in Amazon shares.
Jeff Bezos intends to sell 25 million extra shares of Amazon, worth $5 billion, as the stock reaches a new high.
This follows $8.5 billion in sales earlier this year, bringing his total to $13.5 billion by 2024.
Bezos will still… pic.twitter.com/lP0QY2sISA
— DailyNoah.com (@DailyNoahNews) July 3, 2024
Of course, maybe times aren't tough at all for Bezos....
The man has more money than he could spend in a lifetime.
But perhaps he just knows what is coming?
Perhaps he knows a 1929-level stock market crash is imminent?
What do you think?
Here was our original report from late last year (2023):
Insider's Selling (Part 1): Jeff Bezos Sells $8.5 BILLION of Amazon Stock
As always, never just listen to what they say....watch what they DO!
And just like Nancy Pelosi trading stocks, these insiders rarely lose.
I mean, why would they?
They set the rules, so when it's their game of course they're going to win.
And right now they're all flashing SELL in bright red letters.
Is that because they know it's a market top or close to it?
It makes you wonder.
This is going to be a 3-part series and we're starting with Amazon's Jeff Bezos.
Jeff Bezos isn't really hard up for cash, but he just sold $8.5 BILLION worth of stock -- yes, that's Billion with a B:
Bezos sells $8.5 Billion of stock
Jamie Dimon (JP Morgan) sells $150 million of stock https://t.co/YdsUeK7nBj— Jacqueline (@Jacquel2873634) February 26, 2024
Talk about raising some serious cash!
From the BBC:
Multi-billionaire Jeff Bezos has sold another 14 million Amazon shares, worth around $2.4bn (£1.9bn).
The latest sale brings the total number of shares he has sold in the firm over the last nine trading days to about 50 million, with a value of around $8.5bn.
The tech giant had previously said Mr Bezos would sell up to 50 million shares by the end of January 2025.
His sales of Amazon stock comes after they have risen by more than 76% in the past year.
Mr Bezos, who is the firm's founder and executive chair, had previously last sold Amazon shares in 2021.
He has also given away shares in Amazon as part of his philanthropy, most recently in 2022.
As Mr Bezos moved to Miami in Florida from Seattle in Washington last year, he will save almost $600m in tax on the $8.5bn worth of stock he has sold.
Gains above $250,000 from the sale of shares or other long term investments, are taxed at 7% in Washington state. Florida does not have state taxes on incomes or capital gains.
However, he will still be liable to federal taxes as a result of selling the shares.
When Mr Bezos announced his move to Florida it prompted speculation over whether it was because of a potential tax bill he would have faced in Washington after the state approved a new tax on large stock sales.
Mr Bezos said in November that his parents had recently moved back to Miami where he spent some of his childhood and that he wanted to be close to them and to his Blue Origin space project, which was "increasingly shifting to Cape Canaveral".
"Lauren and I love Miami," he wrote on Instagram, referring to his fiancée Lauren Sánchez.
He did it in smaller chunks of $2 billion a piece.
I guess I should put "smaller" in quotes, because 2 Billion of anything isn't really small, is it?
Fox Business had more details on his latest round of selling:
The Amazon founder conducted the latest transactions involving nearly 12 million shares on Friday and Monday. They were disclosed in a Tuesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
The stocks amounted to about $2.08 billion.
Amazon informed investors earlier in February that Bezos had taken up a trading plan in November that would involve the sale of a maximum of 50 million shares by Jan. 25 of next year. The latest sales — and another set last week — were tied to that.
Prior to the stock sales disclosed Tuesday, Bezos had parted ways with roughly $2.04 billion worth of Amazon stock, another SEC filing showed.
Bezos, who relocated to Florida from Washington with his fiancée Lauren Sanchez, could see massive tax savings on stock sales in the Sunshine State compared to Washington, where he created the e-commerce giant. While neither state has an income tax, Washington recently implemented a 7% capital gains tax.
As usual, Patrick Bet-David has some of the best analysis out there.
Here's what PBD had to say:
By the way, I don't fault ANYONE for making money....as long as it's done legally and ethically.
And there's nothing to suggest Bezos hasn't done it above board.
So congrats to him! Fantastic!
My only point is....is this the Market top? Do people like Bezos tend to sell at the top or the bottom?
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Gold and Silver: "No one wants to sell at these make believe prices"
I've been telling you for a long time now that Gold and Silver are vastly undervalued.
I'm not a financial advisor and I can't tell you what to do, but I can look at historical data and I can easily see that the current price of Gold and Silver makes no sense unless....it's being manipulated.
Now who would want to do that?
And the more important question: will it go on forever, or do the manipulators eventually release the stretched rubber band and ride an explosion up?
I've you've been paying attention in life, you know the answer.
You know these crooks on Wall Street manipulate things down, then they load their boats, then they manipulate them up into a bubble.
Where are we in that process right now for commodities like Gold and Silver?
Right exactly where I placed that star up above.
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The Big Boys are loading their boats.
But that's not just my opinion.
I'm a nobody.
Listen to Andy Schectman who is an expert on these things and he lays it out PERFECTLY in two minutes.
Here's my rough paraphrase:
"A concerted effort by the very powerful to use the suppression of commodities (gold, silver, but also a long list of all other commodities)...these countries are not complaining about suppressed low prices yet because they're accumulating! But once it becomes obvious that the availability of these commodities is very scarce and no one wants to sell at these "make believe prices" then the public says "OMG, what have we been missing?" And maybe that all happens in concert with a breakdown of the banking system, then the public says "give it to me now" and that's when you'll see the circuit breakers be put into affect. But at that point it's too late."
Oh my!
It's so much better to listen to him explain it in his own words.
It's just 2 minutes long.
Watch here (as presented by my friend the Digital Asset Investor):
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But it's not just Andy either.
It's this latest interview over at SGT Report.
Sean does such a great job over there of interviewing people on topics the MSM doesn't want you to see, and his latest is called "$1,000 Silver -- Seriously, Stop Laughing".
There's actually a lot of history that goes into that quote and this was a great discussion by four very smart individuals.
Watch here:
I've been sounding the alarm for a while now...
Have you taken action?
As always, there's one thing I always say and it's never been proven wrong: Watch what they DO, not what they SAY.
Who is "they"?
The same people Andy Schectman was talking about.
Big Governments.
Central Banks all over the world.
Big Business.
What are they doing?
They are LOADING THEIR BOATS with as much Gold and Silver as they can find and they're laughing all the way to the bank because they're buying at what Andy says are "make believe prices".
Are you?
After the Great Financial Crash of 2008, I made a decision.
From that point forward, I would simply do what the Big Boys were doing.
I would simply watch what they're doing and copy it.
Oh, and if they had Jim Cramer telling people the OPPOSITE (i.e. Cramer says Gold is a loser, but the Central Banks are buying with both fists) that was usually the perfect confirmation I needed.
So that's been my strategy since 2008 and it's worked very well for me.
Here's more....
Here's Why Banks Are Buying Up All of the Gold
I've got Jordan Peterson and Peter Schiff in a fascinating conversation about the Value of Gold.
And it's not just some academic debate.
This could very soon be one of the most important things in your world when the U.S. Dollar crashes and gets its value cut in half....or worse.
These guys know what they're talking about and this short 8 minute clip is definitely worth your time to watch.
I always say this: don't listen to what the "Elites" tell you....watch what they are DOING.
And what are they doing?
Stacking gold and silver.
As much as they can get their hands on.
Look, I hope I'm wrong but I think we're in for a massive event that is going to destroy bank accounts and destroy the U.S. Dollar.
So what happens to YOU when that happens?
Watch this and then scroll down for how I can help you stay safe right now....
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To protect your family?
To stay safe?
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Ok, that was #1.
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Stay safe!
Make sure you can weather the storm when it hits!
Because the storm always hits eventually, doesn't it?
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MORE HERE FROM OUR SERIES:
Insider’s Selling (Part 2): Walton Family Cashes Out of Wal-Mart!
Insider’s Selling (Part 3): Jamie Dimon Sells MILLIONS Of Stock — First Time Ever In Over 18 Years
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