There are a lot of opinions in the market. Turn on financial television for five minutes, scroll social media for a few minutes, or sit through an investment committee meeting, and you’ll hear no shortage of predictions about what’s supposed…
SpaceX (SPCX) has already been cut roughly in half from its highs, just days after the biggest IPO in history. That sounds dramatic. But it really shouldn’t be surprising. We’ve been talking about this for months. In Exit Liquidity, I…
Everybody’s furious. The idea of letting public companies report earnings twice a year instead of four has people acting like it’s some giant giveaway to CEOs. Critics say companies will hide bad news, investors will be left in the dark,…
Every few months, a famous CEO says something cautious about the economy and the financial media reacts like the world is ending. This week it was Jamie Dimon. If you only read the headlines, you probably came away thinking the…
One of the biggest reasons I love the stock market has nothing to do with making money. I love ownership. I’ve watched it change people. Give someone a tiny piece of a business, even if it’s just a handful of…
When people want to know how the stock market is doing, they almost always look at the biggest companies. That’s understandable. The largest businesses grab the headlines, move the indexes the most, and seem to dominate every conversation. But if…
One of the biggest mistakes investors make is assuming that what worked yesterday will keep working tomorrow. For decades, stocks and bonds were supposed to balance each other out. Stocks helped grow your money. Bonds helped protect it. When one…
If you think the stock market is about to crash because investors have borrowed too much money, you better have another reason. Too much leverage isn’t it. That might sound surprising because every few months another scary chart starts making…
People love to talk about technology as though it built the stock market. Today, it’s artificial intelligence. Before that, it was the internet. Before that, it was personal computers. Those innovations changed the world. But America’s financial markets didn’t begin…
The other day I was in a meeting with a bunch of traders kicking around ideas. At one point the conversation turned to Apple (AAPL). While everybody else was talking, I started clicking through some of the biggest financial news…
Imagine someone handed you $75 billion. Two weeks later, would your first phone call be to ask investors for another $25 billion? Probably not. That’s exactly what SpaceX (SPCX) just did. Now, SK Hynix (SKHY) has raised another $26.5 billion…
Most people think artificial intelligence and crypto are two completely different stories. AI is supposed to help us work. Crypto is supposed to replace money. They sound like two separate ideas moving in two separate directions. I don’t think that’s…
