Notes on markets, portfolio construction, corporate finance, and the discipline of managing capital — dated, sourced, and written to be checked.
Essays and research notes on portfolio management, markets, corporate finance, and the analytical process. The tone is deliberately sober: a note is a dated argument, not a prediction.
Everyone wants the next Big Short. But 2008 was never a housing story — it was a leverage story. With the US 10-year above 5% and the cost of money at two-decade highs, the parallel is not the subprime borrower. It is the fine print, the …
Between 22 September and 8 October 2026, the MASI fell from 18,076 to 16,749 points. Behind the drop: a mining rally running out of road, narrower-than-headline …
Thirty-four levels of a beginner's Linux wargame, and the strange thing is how little of it was about Linux. Passwords, permissions, pipes, setuid binaries, …
What AI actually automates in financial analysis, what stays human, and how to use the tools before they set the terms — with the data: Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, …
How a quarter-century of oil-price whiplash — 1973 to 1998 — forced the last heirs of Standard Oil back together, and why the terms of a '$74 billion stock …
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