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Downside®
about
us
What
is Downside about? |
Downside's goal
is to remind people that we're experiencing a financial bubble,
and that financial bubbles always burst. (We originally
wrote that in April, 2000. Any questions?)
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Do
we have investments in the stocks mentioned on Downside? |
We do not have
a financial interest in any stocks mentioned. Nor do we take
short positions. We're into Treasury bills and value funds.
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Where
are the cartoon characters from? |
Cranky Guy (below),
Dopey Guy, The
Loser, The Mourner, and the Deathwatch
Vulture are by M. Guerin of my-sfx
and are used by permission. The guy
jumping off the building is from Animats.
After September 11th, we removed that last image from the
home page.
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Who's
behind Downside? |
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Downside
is operated by John
Nagle, a contrarian in Silicon Valley.
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What's
our privacy policy? |
Unless you send
us e-mail, we don't know who you are. We don't use cookies.
We keep some statistical information about users of the site
by IP address. We don't spam. Our "books" section
links to booksellers, and if you order from them, you'll probably
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Legal
notices and disclaimers |
We are not responsible
for errors and omissions in our data. We provide this data
without charge, on a "best-efforts" basis, and you,
the reader, are solely responsible for any use you make of
it. As always, "investigate before you invest".
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About
the databases |
Our financial data
comes from the public-access EDGAR database at the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission. Our database is updated every morning
shortly after 4 AM Eastern time.
The financial statements
are extracted automatically from the official SEC filings.
SEC filings are not designed for machine processing. Because
the format of filings varies considerably, the extraction
process is sometimes unsuccessful. Thus, error messages will
appear for some filings. Generally, if extraction is successful,
the numbers are valid, but we do not guarantee this. Please
let us know if you find a filing for which the financial extraction
system produced incorrect numbers without accompanying error
messages.
The financial statements
are annotated with XBRL, a standard
for expressing financial data in machine-readable form. This
feature is experimental.
We reserve the
right to limit the number of accesses per user per day, to
prevent server overload. If you have a need for this data
in bulk, please let us know, and we'll work something out.
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