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Just AIs Being Bots

Just AIs Being Bots

This is downright weird. An ongoing experiment in which LLMs communicate with each other totally unmediated by humans has created bizarre outcomes, including a quarter billion dollar sh*tcoin and a new AI religion. Check out how we attempt to explain what the hell is going on below.

What’s Up With Consumers?

What’s Up With Consumers?

Ahhh.... okay, now I see why consumer spending data is all over the place. Consumers themselves have no clue what to do in this environment, as we can see in the latest sentiment data. Check it out below.

Morgan Stanley Keeps Flexing

Morgan Stanley Keeps Flexing

Morgan Stanley just proved the phrase “save the best for last” as factual. The last of the big banks to report this szn released their quarterly numbers a day earlier than we expected, flexing on its less-Wealth-Management-y peers.

We Need Kim K

We Need Kim K

The box office is performing even worse in the post-pandemic era than many anticipated. Crazy to imagine with bangers like The Minions movie and Kung Fu Panda 4 coming out since then, but it seems like the industry needs help from the most famous movie star of this generation: Kim Kardashian.

Can’t Have Fun Anymore

Can’t Have Fun Anymore

Uncle Sam needs you to blow your whole paycheck at the bar this weekend. Consumer spending data from Bank of America paints a spooky outlook for an economy that’s 70% driven by consumer wallets.

Vyomesh Kumar
Vyomesh Kumar
Elon’s CyberCap

Elon’s CyberCap

Thursday evening, Tesla went HAM with their first major product announcement since the Cybertruck in 2019. The event went a helluva a lot better than that one, given that no one broke any windows, but we’ll see if this actually comes to fruition.

Bankrupt With Billions

Bankrupt With Billions

HBO just released a documentary claiming to have discovered BTC’s founder. They didn’t. But that got me thinking about what else is going on in the digital asset space, and it turns out that FTX investors are about to make a killing.

State Of The States

State Of The States

Uncle Sam manages his money worse than Michael Scott manages his branch. But, thankfully, his nieces and nephews do a much better job. Find out why states are raking it in and why we should consider reallocating responsibility to the more local level.

Uncle Sam's Financial Baggage

Uncle Sam's Financial Baggage

Meet your "typical American"—crazy Uncle Sam. He’s wealthy by global standards, but between mortgage debt and credit cards, he's got some financial baggage. Despite inflation, he's managing to save a little... but just barely.

Ankit Sinha
Ankit Sinha
Work-From-Port Is Back

Work-From-Port Is Back

The port strike is over... for now. This bandaid over a bullet hole will get us through the holiday and election season but bring us right back to where we were when the tentative deal expires on January 15th.

Vyomesh Kumar
Vyomesh Kumar
Fire Every Economist

Fire Every Economist

It’s high time we just eliminate the word “economist” from our lexicon. Or, at the very least, we could fire every economist because they’re consensus projections for September’s jobs report couldn’t have been more wrong. The U.S. labor market is thriving. Find out why below.

Give Me Banana

Give Me Banana

The longshoremen strike has already been worse for my mental health than when I was dropped as a client by my therapist. And it’s only gonna get worse for the U.S. economy. Below, we go deep into exactly how and where all the shareholder value destruction will come from and what to expect for a resolution.

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