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THE $99B GOOGLE ILLUSION: How Paper Profits Tricked Wall Street!
The S&P 500's record Q2 earnings growth rate of 47.4% looks impressive in financial media headlines, but nearly 40% of that expansion is an accounting illusion. In today's Wall Street Truthbomb, Chief Investment Officer Mark Malek exposes how $99 Billion in unrealized paper profits on private tech investments are masking flat corporate cash flows.Mark breaks down the shadow data inside Alphabet's financial statements, where paper markups on private stakes in SpaceX and Anthropic inflated reported net profit margins to 93.6%—artificially lifting the entire index's profit margin to a record…
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