The market front-ran a peace deal that hasn't been signed, crashing oil and pushing the dollar below 100, while May wholesale inflation came in hot for the second consecutive day, turning "rate hikes" from tail risk into the base-case debate ahead of next week's FOMC. SpaceX begins trading today, and the market punished Oracle's record quarter for the capital bill behind it. The thread running through almost every story below: the number on the surface is hiding the one that actually matters underneath.
“The gap between knowing and doing is where every expensive lesson lives.”
“The people who keep showing up are the whole thing.”
“You don't have to understand the whole system to know what matters right now.”
May producer prices rose 6.5% year-over-year, the hottest wholesale inflation since November 2022, and the composition tells you exactly where the pressure sits: roughly 80% of…
The European Central Bank hiked its deposit rate 25 basis points to 2.25%, the first rate increase by a major developed-market central bank since 2023, hiking into a growth…
“You asked me what I learned. I didn't learn anything. I already knew that I wasn't supposed to do that. I was just an emotional basket case and couldn't help myself.”
— Stanley Druckenmiller
Pick the one thing you already know you should do differently but keep not doing, then, before the day is out, build one piece of structure that makes the wrong move harder or the right move…
The reactor technology that powers almost every nuclear plant on Earth was chosen not because it was superior, but because it was ready first.
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