Personal Stakes Personal Stakes · Macro Brief Monday, July 20, 2026 Macro Musings · Daily Briefing · Monday, July 20, 2026 Chips are down 17% and Bitcoin is up 9% and somehow Apple's all-time high is the boring part SCI (benchmark Chinese equities index) down 5.8% last wk. China
Personal Stakes Personal Stakes · Macro Brief Friday, July 17, 2026 Macro Musings · Daily Briefing · Friday, July 17, 2026 The world's most important shipping lane closed and gold hit $4,018 but sure let's talk about consumer sentiment Gold up 0.81% on the day. Analysts including
Personal Stakes Personal Stakes · Macro Brief Thursday, July 16, 2026 Macro Musings · Daily Briefing · Thursday, July 16, 2026 China built enough EV factories to supply three planets and is now discovering Earth only has one semis up 53% over the last six months. Semiconductor stocks are under pressure with the
Personal Stakes Personal Stakes · Macro Brief Wednesday, July 15, 2026 Macro Musings · Daily Briefing · Wednesday, July 15, 2026 Inflation came in so cool the Fed might actually have to find a new excuse while half the oil on earth forgets how to exit a strait Average hourly earnings up 0.
Personal Stakes Personal Stakes · Macro Brief Tuesday, July 14, 2026 Macro Musings · Daily Briefing · Tuesday, July 14, 2026 China is exporting 11 million cars a year and Trump just invented a toll booth in the ocean China annual export growth up 27% in June, up from 19% in May. China
Personal Stakes Personal Stakes · Macro Brief Monday, July 13, 2026 Macro Musings · Daily Briefing · Monday, July 13, 2026 Trump invented a toll for the Strait of Hormuz and the Fed is inventing reasons to hike so at least everyone is freelancing Fed Governor Waller warned that another hot core inflation
Personal Stakes Personal Stakes · Macro Brief Friday, July 10, 2026 Macro Musings · Daily Briefing · Friday, July 10, 2026 China exported a million cars in June and Europe is taking it personally EU surplus in autos (including battery imports) down 40-50% since 2023. China's auto exports hit a
Personal Stakes Personal Stakes · Macro Brief Thursday, July 9, 2026 Macro Musings · Daily Briefing · Thursday, July 9, 2026 The economy refuses to pick a lane and semis are cheap until they aren't June existing home sales down 2.4% month-over-month. A wave of US economic data
Personal Stakes Personal Stakes · Macro Brief Wednesday, June 10, 2026 Macro Musings · Daily Briefing · Wednesday, June 10, 2026 Tech corrects, oil spikes, and the Fed settles nothing so at least your Tuesday has company Software ETF IGV up 15% from 5/27 to 6/1. Nasdaq-linked equities including software
Personal Stakes Personal Stakes · Macro Brief Wednesday, May 20, 2026 Macro Musings · Daily Briefing · Wednesday, May 20, 2026 The largest oil supply loss in history happened and markets shrugged because NVIDIA reports Wednesday A new Setser-Tordoir paper argues China's undervalued currency and exploding auto exports have become
Personal Stakes Personal Stakes · Macro Brief Friday, May 1, 2026 Macro Musings · Daily Briefing · Friday, May 1, 2026 Your portfolio hit a new high and so did the price of driving to work Jet Fuel up 80% since the start of the Iran war. The Iran war and threatened closure
Personal Stakes Personal Stakes · Macro Brief Thursday, April 30, 2026 Macro Musings · Daily Briefing · Thursday, April 30, 2026 Inflation hit 3.5% and the S&P hit 7,200 on the same day because markets contain multitudes and also gasoline US gas prices up 44% last nine weeks. US