SpaceX IPO: The Market Terms Behind a Historic First-Day Pop
SpaceX's IPO was not just large. Its valuation, allocation, price discovery, key-person risk, index inclusion, and first-day pop made it a market event.
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From Housing-Crisis Hangover to High-Rate Debt: Inflation and the National Debt in 2026
A 2026 update on inflation and the national debt, comparing the low-rate housing-crisis aftermath with today's higher-rate, higher-debt economy.
Why Gold Fell While Stocks Were Selling Off
Gold is supposed to benefit from fear, but today stocks and gold fell together as a strong jobs report pushed investors toward higher-rate expectations, cash-like safety, and the dollar.
Today’s Jobs Report and What It Means for Interest Rates
The May 2026 jobs report was stronger than expected, shifting the interest-rate conversation away from cuts and back toward inflation risk.
Reasons the Economy May Avoid Recession Soon: 2026 Update
A 2026 update on whether the economy may avoid recession soon, with labor market, GDP, industrial production, and leading indicator charts.
Market Should Hit 16,000 in 2013
More reasons it will happen than won't
Reasons the Economy will not go into Recession Soon
There are plenty of reasons to be positive.
The Debt Ceiling and the Market
It is approaching
Inflation and the National Debt
Inflation makes paying it off easier
Mitt Romney's Amazing IRA Investments
If a couple is only allowed to place $10,000/year into an IRA, how is it that Mitt and Ann Romney's
Why Debt Keeps Increasing
We have to answer this question first
Inside Job Hosted by Matt Damon
A recommendation to watch Inside Job for a clearer explanation of the financial crisis.
Uncertainty at home and in Europe
Defining it a little more
Government Job Losses
Half a million in two years.
Reason Short Selling Needs to be Banned
It will prevent a lot of heartache
Bernie Sanders on Occupy Wall Street
A note on Bernie Sanders, Occupy Wall Street, and the choices made during the banking crisis.
Fewer Bank Branches
What's next?
Meltdown: The Men Who Crashed the World
A documentary note about easy credit, weak oversight, and the housing collapse.
Whose Default is it?
Volatile times
Boom and Bust and Goldman Sachs
A dangerous time.