Palantir: A Most Peculiar Prosperity

And so we arrive at Palantir Technologies (PLTR +4.41%), a name that seems to cling to the tongue like a troublesome secret. A company that offers its services to those who dwell in the shadowy corners of governance, and to others who, let us say, have a pronounced interest in knowing what their neighbors are having for tea. It is a firm that trades in information, that most slippery of commodities, and in doing so, has attracted a considerable degree of… scrutiny. A polite word, that. It suggests a gentle examination, like a physician probing a patient. The reality, of course, is closer to a pack of hounds baying at a particularly stubborn badger.








