Kuppy: SPACs and the Ponzi Sector

[Winehole23]

Ponzis Go Boom!!!

by Kuppy • Mar 29, 2021 • 19 Comments

The SPAC market is in the process of detonating and it will take the Ponzi Sector with it.

By Harris “Kuppy” Kupperman, founder of Praetorian Capital, Adventures in Capitalism:

For the past few years, I have been critical of the Ponzi Sector. To me, these are businesses that sell a dollar for 80 cents and hope to make it up in volume. Just because Amazon (AMZN – USA) ran at a loss early on, doesn’t mean that all businesses will inflect at scale. In fact, many of the Ponzi Sector companies seem to have declining economics at scale—largely the result of intense compe ion with other Ponzi companies who also have negligible costs of capital.


I recently wrote about how interest rates are on the rise. If capital will have a cost to it, I suspect that the funding shuts off to the Ponzi Sector—buying unprofitable revenue growth becomes less attractive if you have other options. Besides, when you can no longer use presumed negative interest rates in your DCF, these businesses have no value. I believe the top is now finally in for the Ponzi Sector and a multi-year sector rotation is starting. However, interest rates are only a small piece of the puzzle.

https://wolfstreet.com/2021/03/29/ponzis-go-boom/

[SnakeBoy]

Stay nimble this decade

[CosmicCowboy]

Lyft, Uber, AirBnb, Grubhub, etc..all ridiculous valuations. They have already scaled and still losing their ass.