Tag: macroeconomics

Finance • October 9, 2026

The US 10-Year Yield Just Hit 5.35%. Tech Stocks Have a Problem.

The US 10-year Treasury yield touched 5.35% on October 7, 2026, reaching territory investors had not seen since 2002. It was an extraordinary number for the world’s most important government bond market, but the implications extend well beyond Treasury traders. For investors holding Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, growth stocks or Nasdaq ETFs, the problem is not […]

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Crypto • October 3, 2026

PEPE as a Macroeconomic Indicator Is a Ridiculous Idea. Let’s Test It.

A frog-themed token with no cash flow, no yield, no central bank and no obvious claim on anything productive should have very little to tell us about the global economy. That is precisely why PEPE is interesting. Traditional measures of risk appetite tend to look respectable: equity indices, credit spreads, Treasury yields, volatility, currencies. Memecoins […]

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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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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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Crypto • August 26, 2026

Bitcoin at $80K: Does the Old Four-Year Crypto Cycle Still Matter?

Bitcoin is back above $80,000. In another era of crypto, that number alone might have been enough to restart the familiar conversation about bull markets, halvings and the supposedly inevitable four-year Bitcoin cycle. But this is not another era. Bitcoin pushed through $80,000 in August 2026 after a powerful rebound, yet it remains well below […]

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Crypto Explained • August 22, 2026

Bitcoin Finally Broke the $70,000 Wall

Bitcoin finally punched through $70,000. But the most interesting part of the move is not the number itself or even the size of the rally. The important part is what $70,000 had become. After repeatedly frustrating recovery attempts in 2026, the zone had turned into a meaningful market barrier. Bitcoin’s break above it, followed by […]

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