Market Structure Insights
February 22, 2023
What if everyone is wrong? That’s a lyric from Sheryl Crow’s “Letter to God” on the 2005 Wildflower album. The context for Ms. Crow was the great existential question, “What happens when we die?” I’m writing about market structure and, by extension, economics. God, market...
February 15, 2023
What odds are tolerable to you? If you’re betting – I don’t but follow me – you might take a longshot. Low odds, big returns. But in investor-relations we’re playing with house money. It belongs to shareholders. The odds that we can grow shareholder-value by...
February 8, 2023
Jay Powell reads fiction and plays guitar. Interviewer David Rubenstein, a founder of The Carlyle Group, was downright funny talking to the Federal Reserve chair yesterday. He said, “Your hair is pretty short for a guitar player.” He also asked Mr. Powell if he ever...
February 1, 2023
There’s what the money expects, and what it doesn’t. It’s like the weather. We expected winter in Steamboat. We did not expect 50 inches of snow in the last storm, 120 inches in January alone, and 311 inches for the season already (our 30-year seasonal...
January 25, 2023
The NYSE opening auction failed yesterday. Prices gyrated and trading halted in swaths of large caps including XOM, WMT, UL, T, VZ, RTX, MCD, PRU, UNP, MO and many more – trillions in market cap. It was, to quote comedian Jeff Foxworthy, pandelirium. Especially among...
January 18, 2023
There was a country hit 30 years ago called Nobody Wins. Why drag out a 1993 song by Radney Foster? Well, it popped into my head reading the SEC’s proposed new regulations for the US stock market. Oh, but somebody wins here. If you missed...