Hello from Coronado where I am battling the nastiest of flu’s. I apologize for any extra typo’s ahead… It was a fantastic year for stock market investors. The Dow, The S&P, The Nasdaq 100 and the Russell were all up double digits: The last 5 years...

Markets It’s not unusual that the stock market experiences a double digit loss and then ends the year with a double digit gain. (awealthofcommonsense.com) A look at all the all-time highs that are happening. (allstarcharts.com) Stock...

Books A Q&A with Andrew Ross Sorkin, author of “1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History.” (sherwood.news) A Q&A with Ray Madoff, author of “The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American...

Anthropic has been flying high in 2025, with its Claude and Claude Code products. Making the company a strong number two to its founders’ former home, OpenAI. And it’s continuing in early 2026, with the company raising another $10 billion on a...

Crypto Why MSCI ($MSCI) chickened out on DATs. (giftarticle.ft.com) Some DATs are being forced to sell their digital assets. (theblock.co) There’s not a ton of demand for dogecoin ETFs. (sherwood.news) Trading crypto doesn’t make you immune...

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Podcasts Christine Benz and Ben Johnson talk with Cullen Roche, author of “Your Perfect Portfolio: The Ultimate Guide to Using the World’s Most Powerful Investment Strategies.” (morningstar.com) Stephen Dubner with an update of “Are...

Well, as expected in Las Vegas, Nvidia founder/CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote at CES 2026 was worth the watch. Just like last year. One gets the sense that Nvidia, for all its accomplishments of late, is kinda just ‘getting warmed up’. In particular, Nvidia...

Strategy Eight market lessons from 2025 including ‘Cryptocurrency is still a speculative asset.’ (morningstar.com) Three timeless lessons re-learned in 2025 including ‘Politics and investing don’t mix.’ (carsongroup.com) A...

Good morning… My daughter Rachel turns 28 today. Rachel has an incredible zest for life and I am so proud of her. I am a lucky dad. Powered by beehiiv