Podcasts Benjamin Felix talks with Braden Warwick for a deep dive into what it means to engineer financial outcomes. (rationalreminder.libsyn.com) Rick Ferri talks with Perryne Desai, CFA, who is the Head of Index Fixed Income Product at...

As AI models continue to scale up step by step, tounders of leading LLM AI companies like to write essays on where it’s all headed. As I highlighted two years ago in “A Tale of Two AI Essays (RTZ #598)”, the predictions going forward are typically of...

Markets Who’s buying all that gold? (ft.com) People are trading silver like crazy. (sherwood.news) Strategy There’s only one way to invest in global bonds, currency hedged. (morningstar.com) An example why you shouldn’t take financial...

Also sports/financial journalism, Kirkland & Ellis, pivot to prediction markets and GameStop’s accretive dilution.

Round-ups A round-up of recent academic research including ‘The Importance of Considering Regimes in Long-term Asset Allocation to Real Estate.’ (alphainacademia.substack.com) A round-up of recent research including ‘The Death of...

The world’s top AI Data Center industry execs just wrapped up the Pacific Telecommumications Council PTC 2026 confab in Hawaii. It’s doubtful any of them had a chance to sway in a hammock at all last week. It was the Annual AI Data Center Conference...

Presented by STOCKTWITS CHART ARTThe Stocktwits Summary 📝 Monday ❄️: Markets climbed despite a major winter storm as gold broke $5,000 and silver surged past $117, signaling a massive “debasement trade” shift away from the U.S. dollar....

Presented by CLOSING BELLWake Up and Grab a Shovel  $SPY ( ▲ 0.51% )  $QQQ ( ▲ 0.44% )  $IWM ( ▼ 0.31% )  $DIA ( ▲ 0.64% )  The market climbed Monday, millions waking up to fresh powder after a major blizzard hit the United States. Fresh pow pow is great...

OVERVIEW The Altcoin Index Is Green Today, Which Means We’re Only Down 40% Instead of 42% 🤦 Before we dive in, here’s today’s crypto market heatmap: Source: finviz And here’s a look at crypto’s total market and altcoin market cap charts:...

Commodities Commodities are off to a strong start this year. (capitalspectator.com) Gold topped $5000 per ounce for the first time ever. (sherwood.news) Central banks keep snapping up gold. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com) Crypto Bitmine ($BMNR) is buying...