Welcome to The Bear Cave! Our last premium articles were “Problems at StepStone (STEP)” and “Problems at DraftKings (DKNG) #4” and our next special investigation for paid readers comes out Thursday, August 6.
Bleecker Street Research published on Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT — $5.4 billion), the second-largest U.S. ridesharing operator. Bleecker Street alleged Lyft faces “$1.3 to $2.7 billion of exposure from consolidated rideshare sexual-assault litigation” against just $533 million of legal and tax accruals. Because Lyft’s balance sheet holds just $1.7 billion of cash, Bleecker Street claims Lyft will likely need to raise dilutive equity to service its litigation obligations.
Outlier Capital published on Bank OZK (NASDAQ: OZK — $5.5 billion), a commercial-real-estate construction lender. Outlier wrote, in part:
“Management says the bank is late in a long property downturn and expects a few more problem projects over the next 12 to 18 months. OZK has described the cycle as being near its end for years… the repeated extensions are finally reaching their limit. The weakest projects now need real buyers or long-term lenders before owner support and property values give way.”
Notable executive departures disclosed in the past week include:
SVP of Federal Defense Solutions at Palantir (NASDAQ: PLTR — $295 billion) departed after 14 years, disclosing the June exit only through a LinkedIn update. This caps a string of quiet exits this year as Palantir has faced competition from leading AI labs — with the company’s Head of Enterprise, Head of International Public Sector, and Head of Space departing. In February 2026, Michael Burry of The Big Short fame published on the company’s growing receivables and rising days-sales-outstanding.
Chief Technology Officer and Chief Engineer of Archer Aviation (NYSE: ACHR — $3.6 billion) both disappeared from the company’s leadership page with no announcement. The CTO had led engineering at Archer since 2019.
Executive Vice President and CFO of Coastal Financial (NASDAQ: CCB — $1.1 billion) is departing after just 10 months. His separation agreement waives advance-notice requirements and requires repayment of a $15,000 signing bonus; the company says the exit is “not related to any disagreements.”
Chief Revenue Officer of Red Cat Holdings (NASDAQ: RCAT — $1.2 billion) was terminated for “cause” effective July 23, 2026, after less than two years in the job. Hitchcock sued Red Cat, alleging the firing was retaliatory; the company calls the claims meritless.
Senior Vice President and CFO of Lindsay Corporation (NYSE: LNN — $1.2 billion) is “resigning for personal reasons” effective August 31, 2026, less than a year after his October 2025 appointment.
“Momentum Crash Hits YOLO Traders’ Returns by Most in Four Years” (Bloomberg)
“Retail traders’ obsession with whatever is the next hot thing in the market — often associated with the acronym YOLO for ‘you only live once’ — is misfiring in a month when momentum went from the market’s darling to its punching bag…
The selloff took a toll on how active that amateur traders are in the stock market. Weekly rolling net buying of individual stocks has fallen to the lowest level since the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Vanda Research.”
Kris@KrisBennatti
Red Cat CRO is suing after getting fired for cause $RCAT
5:12 PM · Jul 22, 2026 · 1.42K Views
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Richard X Roe@Richard_X_Roe
Sunvim (a listed Chinese towel and sheet maker!) is acquiring 80% of supposed $AMPX anode-material supplier Berzelius for about $60 million. Claims the transaction is complex, and that Berzelius has MULTIPLE US customers, and that it uses CVD - all of these raise BIG RED FLAGS.
11:42 PM · Jul 21, 2026 · 767 Views
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Consensus Media@ConsensusGurus
Tesla Q1 Robotaxi miles: 1.05 million miles Tesla Q2 Robotaxi miles: 0.75 million miles Wtf! a 30% decline? but they are 'scaling'?
Consensus Media @ConsensusGurus
No Operating Leverage Whatsoever: Recapping Tesla Actuals vs. Consensus Consensus Benchmarking + Valuation Context https://t.co/rihXTOAhCc
9:01 PM · Jul 22, 2026 · 39.4K Views
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Adam Taub@taubamush
$ASTS Stankey also calls these wholesale arrangements repeatedly and frames the carrier JV as creating optionality among Starlink, Amazon Leo, and AST. The JV intends to create interchangeable suppliers with the focus on lowest price for a small percentage of business.
Tim Farrar @TMFAssociates
As Stankey says, the JV is all about negotiating the purchase of D2D capacity on multiple networks at the most economic rates for the small percentage of time it's needed. It's not going to be multiple dollars per month of ARPU for AST or anyone else...
5:27 AM · Jul 23, 2026 · 2.39K Views
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James Chanos@RealJimChanos
Axon Says AI Police Reports Save Time. Public Records Show They Get Facts Wrong (My God, AI-generated police reports are a dream scenario for defense attorneys!) $AXON
forbes.com
Axon Says AI Police Reports Save Time. Public Records Show They Get Facts Wrong
6:52 PM · Jul 22, 2026 · 9.52K Views
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catechwilliams@catechwilliams
$SWIM. Stock has barely budged over the last 2 weeks despite: 1) $PNR pre-announcing pool pump sales -17% and 2) $LESL filing for BK citing slowing new pool demand. Expectation of HSD growth this year are disconnected from reality. Earnings miss and guidance cut likely coming.
3:33 PM · Jul 21, 2026 · 2.1K Views
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Martin Shkreli@MartinShkreli
shorted $HIMS peptides are fake medicine we have come far in the last 70 years of medicine, let's not go backwards please
5:53 PM · Jul 23, 2026 · 851K Views
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FuzzyPanda@FuzzyPandaShort
$FRMI CCO employment contract is actually just an amendment to a May 1st contract that was never disclosed Reminder - Companies don't raise >$400m of dilutive capital at junk terms right before announcing a tenant Fermi raised because there is no tenant
5:16 PM · Jul 24, 2026 · 7.13K Views
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Sam Koppelman@SammyKoppelman
Key moment in $GEV earnings call re: Bloom is when they talked about how they still hadn't proven out the "life" of their new fuel cells. Go ask any former $BE customer about stack life — and let me know what they say.
5:18 PM · Jul 22, 2026 · 26.6K Views
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Deep Sail Capital@DeepSailCapital
The company is essentially vapor. To be clear the company has bought $5.1m of land in Texas paid $75m for a JV they started a few months before with Sharon AI that only had ~$2m of cash contributed to it at the time they bought it out. And likely has some initial engineering
10:37 PM · Jul 21, 2026 · 2.48K Views
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Andrew Granato@agranato42
New w/ @PranjalDrall: Private Credit's State Backstop: How Private Equity Socializes Risk Through Insurers. It's about how insurance insolvency, tax, and financial-regulation law have subsidized PE's takeover of life insurance and become the submerged law of private credit.
1:54 PM · Jul 21, 2026 · 457K Views
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