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So, it turns out, Meta Platform’s $META ( ▼ 0.07% ) biggest growth segment isn’t AI. It’s not VR. And it’s definitely not the metaverse.

Nope. It’s scams.

Recent reporting shows Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp serve up 15 billion scam ads a day, generating billions in revenue even as vulnerable users lose money.

What’s worse, newly surfaced internal documents suggest Meta can spot the fakes. It just doesn’t move fast enough to kill them.

If regulators don’t step in soon, the grift economy could keep scaling faster than any algorithm can clean it up.

— Brooks & Cas

Stocks started strong after Washington struck a deal to end the shutdown, briefly sending the DJIA past 48,000 for the first time ever. But a chorus of Fed officials warning that December rate cuts are “far from certain” quickly deflated the rally. By week’s end, the Nasdaq had slipped 0.5%. Turns out, nothing kills a market high faster than too much Fed talk.

All eyes now turn to Nvidia $NVDA ( ▲ 1.77% ). The $4.6T AI titan reports earnings on Wednesday. Analysts expect another blockbuster quarter, and given their track record of underestimating Nvidia 18 of the past 20 times, odds are good. Still, one tiny earnings miss could send the entire AI trade into a tailspin.

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Right? 😅

Good thing big public companies are mandated to tell on themselves.

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Some subprime auto loans are carrying interest rates above 30%.

That’s not financing. It’s repo scheduling.

Except this time. 😱

I don’t understand.

We explored every possible angle.

What could have possibly gone wrong?