A prickly patriot: Palantir’s prospectus reveals losses, promise

Re:A prickly patriot: Palantir’s prospectus reveals losses, ... by bhupy on Friday August 28, 2020 @10:40AM (#24305408)

> as Keynes quipped "in the long run, we're all dead"

This is one of the more over-used quotes. In this case, it's not particularly relevant since US fiscal and monetary policy is almost entirely designed around incentivizing long-term investment over short-term gains.

If Palantir is indeed a good "long run" bet, then every pension fund, 401(k), mutual fund, or ETF (read: most institutional investors) should in theory eat it up after the IPO.

To borrow another pithy quote:

"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."

- Charlie Munger

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Re:A prickly patriot: Palantir’s prospectus reveals losses, ... by Barrin92 on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:16PM (#24306672)

>in theory eat it up after the IPO.

or maybe not in theory but in practise, the entire stock market performance has shifted so strongly towards technology companies due to the general low growth environment we're in that the whole thing comes crashing down in five to ten years because there's actually no business model

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Re:A prickly patriot: Palantir’s prospectus reveals losses, ... by bhupy on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:23PM (#24306759)

In practice, the entire stock market has reverted to a comically long-run view of the economy writ large. That's why despite a historic pandemic, unemployment, and GDP contraction, most indexes (including the un-weighted ones) are at close to all-time-highs. It's all "priced in".

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