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The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Two
44 minutes Posted Jan 21, 2026 at 5:00 am.
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In part two of this week’s four-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis special, Ed Zitron walks you through how companies like AMD, Broadcom and NVIDIA are swindling stockholders with the help of analysts and the media, and how decades of easy returns for venture capital are an existential risk to the future of startup fundraising.

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