The Bigger Picture, Sunday, April 5, 2026 The world wished Apple’s all the best for its fiftieth anniversary this week. Oodles of digital ink on the company’s extraordinary journey over five decades that dented the universe. Our lives are all...

EVs The Trump administration has stranded billions in EV investment. (wsj.com) The Iran War highlights the problem with sidelining EVs. (noahpinion.blog) Battery hype is rampant. On the prospects for a production-ready solid-state battery for EVs....

Microsoft bundles OpenAI & Anthropic into a new Copilot tier: Microsoft is leveraging its unique equity and business partnerships with both OpenAI and Anthropic. They’re bundling both LLM AIs into a new Copilot ‘Critique’ capability that uses one model...

Good morning and happy Passover and Easter to all of you. We’re back with another episode of The Howard Lindzon Show with Michele Steele. We open with a quick health check: turns out my “The Tale of the Finger” was very popular which is a reminder that...

Prediction markets Who’s making money on prediction markets? (giftarticle.ft.com) Prediction market structured notes are here. (bloomberg.com) IPOs The big IPOs are going to rely on the growing class of individual investors. (newcomer.co) Why OpenAI...

History does repeat and/or rhyme as they say. Especially as tech waves and booms really get going. The 1990s saw an acute shortage of Internet dial-up modem network capacity for America Online (AOL), Microsoft Network (MSN) and others. As millions of...

CLOSING BELLHappy Thursday, Friday The market initially was deep red Thursday, after Trump made a prime-time address Wednesday night to say the war in Iran will be over soon, but that he would send them back to the Stone Age. 🗿  Oil prices popped 13%, but...

STOCKTWITS CHART ARTThe Stocktwits Summary 📝 Thursday ⚠️: The market went red early after a brutal war‑rhetoric soundbite and a 13% oil spike, then clawed back to flat as Tehran signaled it would work with Oman to keep Hormuz traffic moving. Trade...

OVERVIEWCASE FILE: Total Cryptocurrency Market Q2 Behavioral Audit (2014–2025) 📛 Cryptotwits April 2 2026 Case No.: DACRU-2026-Q2-0001 Classification: Unreasonably Volatile – Approach With Existential Dread Filed by: Senior Special Agent...

Strategy Why it’s so tempting to go bottom fishing in washed out stocks. (awealthofcommonsense.com) How to avoid choice overload. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com) Private assets Blue Owl ($OWL) continues to see big outflow requests. (semafor.com) A...