SpaceX S-1 Analysis: What's In The IPO Filing
SpaceX just filed its S-1, and the document is exactly what you'd expect from a 24-year-old company that has become the most important private business in the world: enormous, ambitious, frequently su...
The Most-Anticipated 13F of 2026: What Leopold Aschenbrenner Actually Owns
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness LP posted its Q1 2026 13F to the SEC on Monday, May 18, 2026, and it was the most-watched institutional filing of the quarter. In a single thre...
Trump's 2024 Income: $354M Golf, $57M Crypto, $36M Foreign Licensing
On June 13, 2025, the Office of Government Ethics released Donald Trump's annual financial disclosure (OGE Form 278e) covering the 2024 calendar year. The filing ran 234 pages, including 145 pages...
3,711 Trades In 11 Weeks: What Trump's Two Latest OGE Filings Actually Show
On May 12, 2026, two of the most consequential financial disclosure documents of the Trump presidency landed on the U.S. Office of Government Ethics' desk. Both were OGE Form 278-T periodic transactio...
The 10 Biggest US Stock Market Bubbles in History
Stock market bubbles are easier to identify in retrospect than in real time. We are sitting in May 2026, with Nvidia having crossed a five trillion dollar market capitalization, with the Magnificent 7...
Why Did The FDA Suddenly Reverse Course On uniQure's AMT-130 - The First Therapy In 150 Years To Slow Huntington's Disease?
For 41,000 Americans living with Huntington's disease, there has never been a single approved treatment that slows the progression of their illness. Not one. By June 2025, after seven years of cli...
How Did Trump Just Reset The War Powers Clock With "Project Freedom"?
On Friday, May 1, 2026 - the day the 60-day War Powers Resolution clock was set to expire on the war with Iran - President Trump sent a letter to Congress declaring that the hostilities that began on ...
How The Trump Administration Made $34 Billion (And Counting) On Intel
In early August 2025, Donald Trump publicly demanded the resignation of Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Two weeks later, after a face-to-face meeting at the White House, Trump bought 10% of the company instead....
How Elizabeth Warren Killed Spirit Airlines
At 3:00 a.m. Eastern on May 2, 2026, Spirit Airlines shut down. Seventeen thousand jobs are gone. It is the first major U.S. airline liquidation in 25 years, and the chain of events that produced it b...
Sovereign Wealth Funds Worldwide - A Complete Guide to Every Major Fund
On April 27, 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the Canada Strong Fund, Canada's first national sovereign wealth fund, with an initial capitalization of $25 billion. The catch? Canada is runni...
Who Was the Best Federal Reserve Chairman of All Time?
Today, April 29, 2026, marked Jerome Powell's final FOMC meeting as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. After more than eight years at the helm of the most powerful central bank in the world, Powell will...
A History of Former Administration Officials Hit With Criminal Charges After Leaving the White House
The James Comey indictment that landed today - making him the first former FBI Director to be charged with felony threats against a sitting President - has Washington reaching for the history books, a...
From $30M To $95K: How Ilhan Omar's Reported Net Worth Vanished On A Single Filing
In May of 2025, Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar filed her annual financial disclosure with the U.S. House Clerk. The numbers were stunning. Her household, which had reported a net worth between rou...
What is the Bab el-Mandeb Strait? The Importance of the Global Oil Chokepoint
The Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Translation? "The Gate of Tears". "The Gate of Grief". "The Gate of Anguish". All are used, and all apply. The Bab el-Mandeb Strait connects the Middle East with East Afri...
How Much Oil Flows Through the Strait of Hormuz?
The Strait of Hormuz is 21 nautical miles (approximately 24 statute miles, or 39 km) wide at its narrowest point. On an average day in 2025, approximately 20 million barrels of oil passed through it -...