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By the time the public is finally invited to the IPO feast, much of the banquet has already been consumed. The stock market occasionally experiences moments when investors stop asking what a company earns and instead ask what civilization itself may become if the company succeeds. America has entered such...
Wall Street’s capacity for selective hearing remains one of modern finance’s most reliable constants. Oil remains above $100 a barrel ($105 today). More than 10% of global oil production and export flow has now been disrupted or stranded by the widening Iran conflict and the continuing paralysis of the Strait...
Markets Climb While Reality Waits A year ago, markets staged a familiar drama. The S&P 500 fell nearly 20% on fears that sweeping tariffs would trigger a global recession—only to reverse sharply and reach new highs once those fears proved overstated. Today, the rhyme is unmistakable. Today, the same instinct...
*{Next Newsletter expected April 27th} Markets, which only days ago wore the expression of a clenched jaw, have relaxed. The announced two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, coupled with the conditional reopening of tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, has shifted the narrative from scarcity to anticipation....
The Iranian war battlefield has acquired a second front—not in the Saudi desert or in the Red Sea, but across the negotiating table. The United States, having escalated operationally, is now escalating diplomatically. President Donald Trump, in a manner consistent with his transactional instincts to pursue maximum leverage, has introduced...
In ordinary times, investors debate earnings revisions, Federal Reserve nuance, and the subtle choreography of inflation and growth. In wartime—particularly when that war encircles the world’s most important energy chokepoint—those concerns are demoted to second-tier considerations. For now, spreadsheets have yielded to shipping lanes. What was once a steady flow...
History occasionally compresses itself into geography. Religion, commerce and empires sometimes converge upon an inconveniently narrow place. Occasionally, a strip of water, such as the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, becomes a fulcrum of the global economy. In ancient times it was spice traders and today this chokepoint...
The market waited with bated breath for Nvidia’s fourth quarter earnings report – expectations inflated, speculation extravagant. The company delivered. Revenue, margins, data-center growth, and guidance all surpassed even the optimistic “whisper numbers.” For a fleeting moment, investors awarded Nvidia a valuation cresting near $5 trillion, north of $203 per...
Three years ago, when artificial intelligence first captured our collective imagination, capital allocators and investors viewed it with the reverence of the Gods. Today, those same investors regard AI with the wariness of opening Pandora’s box, uncertain what manner of disruption might escape to infect the economy of margin-rich, knowledge-based...
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