Quarterly Earnings to Semi-Annual Reports? That’s Not “Efficiency.” That’s Strategic Obfuscation. One of Trump’s recent posts on X (formerly Twitter) reignited his push to roll back quarterly earnings reports from public companies in favor of semi-annual disclosures. To the untrained eye, this might seem like a move to “cut red tape” or “let businesses breathe.” But let’s be real — it’s anything but. Quarterly reports, flawed though they are, still provide a regular, structured glimpse into the internal workings of public companies. For small investors, they’re one of the few tools left to gauge whether they’re being conned. Stretching the reporting period to six months gives C-suite executives and institutional players double the time to fudge numbers, bury losses, and…

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