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Private sector labor costs rose 0.9 percent in second quarter 2026. Slightly higher than the 0.8 percent Wall Street expected. Yearly wage growth slowed to 3.1 percent for private sector, smallest since early 2021. Real wages after inflation dropped 0.3 to 0.4 percent. Wall Street still freaks out when regular workers get paid more. US … Read more
The CHEAT CODE almost no USD investor knows exists. Swiss stocks returned 7.7% a year over the last 100 years. Pictet has tracked it since 1926: the most defensive, quality-heavy market on earth. Nestlé, Roche, the compounders of record. Now the trick. The SNB’s rate is 0%. The Fed’s is above 4%. When a USD … Read more
A notepad in front of U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent reads “To Do Buy Japanese Yen $5-10 bil” as he participates in a cabinet meeting at Camp David, Maryland, U.S., July 31, 2026. The note, photographed at 1:33 EDT, came after Reuters earlier reported the Treasury had put banks on alert fora possible … Read more
The interesting part about Netflix falling isn’t that people suddenly hate Netflix. It’s that for the first time in years, customers are starting to question whether the deal still makes sense. That is a much bigger problem. For a long time, Netflix had one of the strongest pricing machines in the world. Raise prices. Crack … Read more
For almost 30 years, Google worked the same way. Websites created the content. Google indexed it. Users clicked the links. Everyone benefited. That deal is starting to fall apart. Google still controls roughly 90% of global search. Now it puts AI answers at the top of the page. Most people never need to scroll. They … Read more
The timing almost sounds fictional. Leopold Aschenbrenner was reportedly in Carmel, California, preparing for a multi-day wedding celebration, complete with a pre-wedding colloquium on big ideas, just as his AI-focused hedge fund was unraveling. The 24-year-old had built a firm that at one point managed roughly $45 billion, riding the AI boom with heavily leveraged … Read more
Regular folks get priced out of fun while AI companies get the chips for chatbots. Gaming used to be for everyone, now it feels like private club membership. Nintendo Switch 2 now heading to 500 dollars in US from September after earlier 450 launch. High end Xbox Series X jumping to 800 dollars from August … Read more
By Peter Reagan We tend to use the word “safe” as though it has only one meaning. But a life jacket won’t put out a kitchen fire. A smoke detector won’t help much during a flood. They are all safety equipment – they simply address different dangers. The concept of “financial safety” works the same … Read more
AI focused hedge fund Situational Awareness already blew up from leverage this week. Oracle stock cratered as debt for data centers piled up. Semiconductor indexes lost trillions in July before a partial rebound. Ray Dalio (Bridgewater founder) just confirmed it: AI is the biggest US investment bubble in history. Same pattern as 1929 and 2000. … Read more
Warsh already cut forward guidance and keeps statements short. Markets have less to price from his words. Three dissents at his second meeting as chair showed internal division over rates. He created task forces on communications data and the balance sheet right after taking the job. More changes still coming. Lol they can't raise rates … Read more
Delinquency rates kept climbing through multiple quarters. Pattern matches the run up to prior crises. Sun Belt inventory recovery continues while affordability stays broken. FHA serious delinquencies jumped hard in one year. Pressure builds on lower end mortgages.
Everyone assumes Copart needs more car accidents to grow. I think that’s yesterday’s story. The real story is what happens after the accident. Think about a car that cost $6,000 to repair in 2015. Today, that same collision might require a new bumper, radar module, cameras, ADAS calibration, wiring harnesses, LED headlights, and dozens of … Read more
The AI boom has been built on one assumption. Spend first. Figure out the profits later. That works only if there’s always another funding round… or eventually an IPO. Now that assumption is starting to look a little less certain. There’s growing discussion that an Anthropic IPO this year has become much less likely after … Read more
This is one of those stories that doesn’t look important until you connect all the dots. China’s smartphone shipments reportedly fell to 17 million units in June, down 17% year over year and 36% from May. One explanation making the rounds is rising memory costs. That isn’t just a smartphone story. It’s an AI story. … Read more
As semiconductor-related stocks surged, with SK hynix hitting the daily upper price limit for the first time ever during trading, the KOSPI index also soared by 18%. The KOSDAQ index climbed by more than 10%. On July 31, the KOSPI closed at 6,595.45, up 1,001.89 points (17.91%) from the previous trading day. After opening at … Read more
America’s restaurant chains are closing at a pace few people notice, and this video shows what that collapse looks like from behind the counter. You’ll hear from workers standing in buildings with no air conditioning for months, servers running triple sections, and diners saying goodbye to places their families loved for decades. By the end … Read more
Amazon may have quietly changed what Wall Street expects from the entire AI industry. The company just pushed its 2026 capital spending plan to around $220 billion. Free cash flow turned negative. Under normal circumstances, that’s exactly the kind of headline investors punish. Instead, the stock surged about 9% after hours. Why? Because AWS accelerated … Read more
Everyone keeps treating these like separate stories. The AI boom. The tariff shock. The Iran war. Private credit. Commercial real estate. Housing. I don’t think they are separate anymore. They’re all connected by one thing. The bond market. For years, every new problem was solved the same way. More debt. More liquidity. Lower rates. Investors … Read more
Reddit reported second-quarter earnings on Thursday that beat on the top and the bottom lines, and the company issued guidance that sailed past expectations. But the stock sank 11% after the company said in an investor letter that “search referrals were choppy,” underscoring investor concerns about Reddit’s reliance on Google to land new users. Here’s how the company … Read more
When one country’s chip and computing hardware shipments become a primary growth engine for its entire export machine, every AI spending cycle lands squarely on Beijing’s trade balance. The leverage runs both ways. “This figure has more than doubled over the last 3 years. At the same time, computer and component shipments are up to … Read more