The Market Structure Map

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December 3, 2025

Where is the money coming from? It’s the question Karen and I had down in Cabo ahead of Thanksgiving as we observed the hillsides overlooking the Sea of Cortez now festooned with elegant homes. It wasn’t that way the last time I visited 25 years...

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August 20, 2025

I was the odd man out. I joined over a hundred investor-relations colleagues in Dallas last week for the NIRI Southwest Regional Conference (great work, chapter team led by Brook Wooton!). I was the only person talking about the trend in our addressable market. More...

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July 30, 2025

Tell them it’s human nature, sang Jacob Collier. Well, Michael Jackson crooned that in 1982 under the tutelage of Quincy Jones. At the Denver Botanic Gardens Jul 28, musical savant Jacob Collier who Quincy Jones championed played Michael Jackson’s Human Nature with technological wizardry that...

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July 23, 2025

Stage 16 of the Tour de France yesterday raced up Provence’s forbidding Mont Ventoux, and nobody displaced the wearer of the Maillot Jaune, the yellow jersey, Tadej Pogacar (po-GOT-cher), the Scottie Scheffler of cycling.  I rode Mont Ventoux in 2013, a long leg-burner from the...

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July 16, 2025

Does the book by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” highlight the fundamental flaw in AI? The definition of heuristic (a key Tversky Kahneman topic) is, paraphrasing, pragmatic problem-solving, subject to vagary and error. One could say that eliminating vagary and error...

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July 9, 2025

Jane Street, a top 25 holder of US equities in 13Fs and one of the biggest global proprietary traders, has been banned for now from the Indian stock market by the regulatory equivalent there of the SEC. Why should you care, investors and public companies?...

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