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September Was Basically Two Stock Markets Wearing One Trench Coat
Investing • October 1, 2026

September Was Basically Two Stock Markets Wearing One Trench Coat

September was a good month for the stock market. September was also a terrible month for the stock market. Both statements can be defended with perfectly respectable numbers. The Nasdaq Composite gained about 1.9% during the month, extending the extraordinary run of technology and AI-linked stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average went in the opposite […]

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The Worst Market Timer Ever Still Retired a Millionaire
How-to • September 26, 2026

The Worst Market Timer Ever Still Retired a Millionaire

Imagine spending your entire investing life making almost perfectly terrible decisions. You buy stocks just before the 1973–74 bear market. You return immediately before Black Monday in 1987. Then you pile in at the peak of the dot-com bubble and, for your grand finale, invest just before the global financial crisis. That is essentially the […]

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What Does Bitcoin Hedge, Exactly?
Crypto Explained • September 8, 2026

What Does Bitcoin Hedge, Exactly?

Bitcoin has spent most of its adult life accumulating narratives. It was electronic cash, then digital gold. It became an inflation hedge, an escape hatch from monetary debasement, a geopolitical safe haven, a liquidity sponge and, depending on the market cycle, the ultimate risk-on asset. The problem is obvious: an asset cannot be judged as […]

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The Week Nvidia Delivered the Receipts and the Fed Raised the Difficulty
Market Pulse • August 30, 2026

The Week Nvidia Delivered the Receipts and the Fed Raised the Difficulty

Last week, the market demanded receipts. This week, it got them. Nvidia delivered another absurd quarter, Bitcoin pushed through $80,000, CrowdStrike reminded Wall Street that AI can create software revenue as well as GPU bills, and the major US indices managed to finish higher. For about five minutes, everything looked beautifully simple. Then Kevin Warsh […]

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Reddit Joins the S&P 500: Memes Meet Wall Street
AI Industry • August 19, 2026

Reddit Joins the S&P 500: Memes Meet Wall Street

In early 2021, Reddit looked like one of the last places Wall Street would ever want to take seriously. WallStreetBets was overflowing with rocket memes, GameStop screenshots, “diamond hands” and retail traders openly treating hedge funds as raid bosses. The platform had become the social infrastructure behind a financial revolt — chaotic, funny, reckless and […]

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Nvidia Earnings Are Becoming AI’s Quarterly Season Finale
AI Industry • August 17, 2026

Nvidia Earnings Are Becoming AI’s Quarterly Season Finale

Every three months, Wall Street gets its own version of a prestige-TV season finale. The theories pile up. Expectations become absurdly specific. Everyone has a prediction. And then, for a few hours, one company is expected to explain where the entire artificial intelligence story goes next. That company is Nvidia. On August 26, Nvidia is […]

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Michael Burry Is Shorting the AI Party Again
AI Industry • August 15, 2026

Michael Burry Is Shorting the AI Party Again

Michael Burry has walked back into the AI trade, and once again he is entering through the emergency exit. The investor made famous beyond Wall Street by The Big Short has been building and reinforcing bearish positions around some of the biggest beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence infrastructure boom. His targets have included Nebius, Micron, […]

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The Matrix Was Right: Markets Now Trade Stories, Not Reality
Finance • August 10, 2026

The Matrix Was Right: Markets Now Trade Stories, Not Reality

You open the earnings report. Revenue is climbing. Profits are beating forecasts. The chief executive sounds confident. The machines are humming, customers are buying and the company has just delivered one of the strongest quarters in its history. Then the stock falls. Not by a fraction. Not because the business has suddenly caught fire. It […]

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Why Palantir Keeps Beating Expectations and Why Its Valuation Still Looks Dangerous
Big Tech • August 4, 2026

Why Palantir Keeps Beating Expectations and Why Its Valuation Still Looks Dangerous

Palantir has spent years dividing Wall Street into two camps. To believers, it is becoming the operating system for artificial intelligence inside governments, factories and some of the world’s most complex organizations. To skeptics, it is a highly valued software company wrapped in defense contracts, theatrical shareholder letters and an unusually devoted investor following. Its […]

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