richcano Love the Fed? That may be too strong a sentiment. But at the very least, the bond market is channeling its inner Dude (as in “The Big Lebowski”) and abiding the Fed. The market had already priced itself out of the multiple rate cut fantasy with which it started the year when the FOMC…
This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Inscription Issue”. Click here to get your Annual Bitcoin Magazine Subscription. Click here to download a PDF of this article. Ordinals have been a polarizing phenomenon for most every subcommunity in Bitcoin — except for miners. The meteoric rise of the new Bitcoin-native NFT standard dominated discourse…
Sean De Burca/The Image Bank via Getty Images I was a small-town real estate developer before I began writing articles here on Seeking Alpha. I’ve written about this many times before, but it bears mentioning once again. My real estate career dates back over three decades. Three decades filled with so many opportunities to learn…
The recent surge in Bitcoin’s on-chain fees has reignited a familiar discussion within our community, bringing to the surface diverse perspectives on the implications and root causes of this trend. A faction within the community views these heightened fees as a strategic solution to Bitcoin’s security budget concerns. In contrast, others see them as a…
cemagraphics Last weekend’s article was titled “FOMO Top,” and as you may guess, it got this week’s moves in the S&P500 (SPY) completely wrong. I should have stayed bullish instead of trying to anticipate a correction. In my defence, I did state “closing below 4393 should signal the beginning of the reversal,” which never happened…
yusnizam It was in the 1980s when President Ronald Reagan used the phrase “trust but verify,” a Russian proverb translated into English when he was in the nuclear arms negotiations with Mikhail Gorbachev. At that time, these two superpowers had to establish a level of trust, meaning they needed to verify that each party was…
Dilok Klaisataporn/iStock via Getty Images Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s business partner, once said that “life will have terrible blows in it, horrible blows, unfair blows. It doesn’t matter. And some people recover, and others don’t.” I can relate. As many of you know, I was a successful real estate developer in my past life. The…