Market Structure Insights
May 1, 2024
The cost of fast food has exploded. No, I’m not doing field research. While I’ve got nothing against fast food, it’s generally incompatible with getting in boat shape (ever harder as I get older), riding bikes, skiing, etc. And I’d rather take my empty calories...
April 24, 2024
April 10, 2024
You wonder what’s going to happen next. I mean, look around. The South Carolina women ran ruthlessly through everyone, capping a 38-0 season with the NCAA basketball championship. Right before a total eclipse not of the heart but of the sun. Then UConn trammeled the...
April 3, 2024
Is impending volatility predictable? Sherlock Holmes would not tell Watson it’s elementary, that’s for sure. But there is a tale behind the tape. Permit me to tell it. I wrote this last week: Some volatility you can’t control. The market is fragile and fast-moving and...
March 27, 2024
Vanguard founder Jack Bogle said to own the averages. Index funds. That seed germinated into a tree that filled the investment world. Look at Blackrock. More on Larry Fink in a moment. Most of the top 25 owners of US stocks follow models. The constituency...
March 6, 2024
What the…? Everything was awesome. Monday. Then yesterday, stocks toppled like a thawed corpse in Nederland (inside joke, there). No obvious reason. Some said it was Jay Powell testifying today and tomorrow. Others claimed it was Big Tech coming apart at the seams (great song I’ve...