Musings on Markets - Stories Contributed
The (Uncertain) Payoff from Alternative Investments: Many a slip between the cup and the lip?
Financial Markets | Jun 17 2025 12:0318
Sovereign Ratings, Default Risk and Markets: The Moody's Downgrade Aftermath!
Financial Markets | Jun 02 2025 16:0516
The Greed & Fear Tango: The Markets in April 2025!
Financial Markets | May 03 2025 11:0319
Buy the Dip: The Draw and Dangers of Contrarian Investing!
Financial Markets | Apr 20 2025 23:0329
Anatomy of a Market Crisis: Tariffs, Markets and the Economy!
Financial Markets | Apr 07 2025 19:0326
Investing Politics: Globalization Backlash and Government Disruption!
Financial Markets | Mar 15 2025 13:0316
Data Update 9 for 2025: Dividends and Buybacks - Inertia and Me-tooism!
Financial Markets | Mar 05 2025 16:0414
Data Update 8 for 2025: Debt, Taxes and Default - An Unholy Trifecta!
Financial Markets | Feb 23 2025 20:2228
Return on Equity, Earnings Yield and Market Efficiency: Back to Basics!
Financial Markets | Feb 18 2025 15:0115
Data Update 7 for 2025: The End Game in Business!
Financial Markets | Feb 12 2025 10:0122
Data Update 6 for 2025: From Macro to Micro - The Hurdle Rate Question!
Financial Markets | Feb 08 2025 11:4316
Data Update 5 for 2025: It's a small world, after all!
Financial Markets | Feb 06 2025 16:4330
DeepSeek crashes the AI Party: Story Break, Change or Shift?
Financial Markets | Jan 31 2025 13:0135
Data Update 4 for 2025: Interest Rates, Inflation and Central Banks!
Financial Markets | Jan 28 2025 16:2212
Data Update 3 for 2025: The times they are a'changin'!
Financial Markets | Jan 26 2025 14:0320
Data Update 2 for 2025: The Party Continued (for US Equities)
Financial Markets | Jan 17 2025 17:0119
Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Danger) of Data
Financial Markets | Jan 10 2025 18:0330
For the fun of it: An Open House for my Spring 2025 Classes
Financial Markets | Dec 11 2024 14:0923
The Siren Song of Sustainability: The Theocratic Trifecta's Third Leg!
Financial Markets | Nov 14 2024 18:2727
The Wisdom and Madness of Crowds: Market Prices as Political Predictors!
Financial Markets | Nov 07 2024 18:0839
The Sugar Daddy Effect? Assessing Corporate venture capital, Sovereign funds and Green Energy!
Financial Markets | Oct 28 2024 17:0744
Breaking up Big Tech: Cui Bono?
Financial Markets | Oct 18 2024 20:0734
Just do it! Brand Name Lessons from Nike'sTroubles!
Financial Markets | Oct 01 2024 18:0833
Fed up with Fed Talk? Central Banking Fairy Tales and Facts!
Financial Markets | Sep 20 2024 16:0741
Dealing with Aging: Diagnosing Intel, Walgreens and Starbucks!
Financial Markets | Sep 09 2024 22:04168
The Power of Expectations: Nvidia's Earnings and the Market Reaction!
Financial Markets | Sep 06 2024 00:0636
Beat your Bot: Building your moat against AI
Financial Markets | Aug 28 2024 18:0650
The Corporate Life Cycle: Corporate Finance, Valuation and Investing Implications!
Financial Markets | Aug 20 2024 00:0639
Country Risk: My 2024 Data Update
Financial Markets | Jul 24 2024 14:0552
Catastrophic Risk: Investing and Business Implications
Financial Markets | Feb 16 2024 16:0026
The Seven Samurai: How Big Tech Rescued the Market in 2023!
Financial Markets | Feb 08 2024 20:0048
Data Update 5 for 2024: Profitability, Returns and Value Creation (Destruction)!
Financial Markets | Jan 31 2024 12:2026
Data Update 4 for 2024: Danger and Opportunity - Bringing Risk into the Equation!
Financial Markets | Jan 28 2024 11:2090
Data Update 3 for 2024: Interest Rates in 2023 - A Rule-breaking Year!
Financial Markets | Jan 24 2024 23:0124
Data Update 2 for 2024: A Stock Comeback - The Low Expectations Game!
Financial Markets | Jan 17 2024 13:2015
The School Bell Rings: Time for Class!
Financial Markets | Jan 11 2024 17:59101
Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?
Financial Markets | Jan 05 2024 19:01110
The Difference Makers: Key Person(s) Valuation
Financial Markets | Dec 10 2023 06:01169
Tesla in November 2023 : Story twists and turns, with value consequences!
Financial Markets | Nov 01 2023 14:0254
Good Intentions, Perverse Outcomes: The Impact of Impact Investing!
Financial Markets | Oct 12 2023 15:4328
Invisible, yet Invaluable: Valuing Intangibles in the Birkenstock IPO!
Financial Markets | Oct 06 2023 18:0137
Market Bipolarity: Exuberance versus Exhaustion!
Financial Markets | Oct 04 2023 16:0317
Putting the (Insta)cart before the (Grocery) horse: A COVID Favorite's Reality Check!
Financial Markets | Sep 19 2023 18:0262
A Business Upended: Streaming disrupts the Entertainment Business!
Financial Markets | Sep 11 2023 20:0328
Toys for Billionaires: Sports Franchises as Trophy Assets!
Financial Markets | Aug 25 2023 18:0333
In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!
Financial Markets | Aug 15 2023 18:0331
The Price of Risk: With Equity Risk Premiums, Caveat Emptor!
Financial Markets | Aug 05 2023 14:0327
Country Risk: A July 2023 Update!
Financial Markets | Jul 25 2023 18:0334
Market Resilience or Investors In Denial? A Mid-year Assessment for 2023!
Financial Markets | Jul 17 2023 20:0323
AI's Winners, Losers and Wannabes: An NVIDIA Valuation, with the AI Boost!
Financial Markets | Jun 23 2023 16:0537
Good (Bad) Banks and Good (Bad) Investments: At the right price...
Financial Markets | May 07 2023 17:4331
Breach of Trust: Decoding the Banking Crisis
Financial Markets | May 05 2023 20:0264
Data Update 7 for 2023: Dividends, Buybacks and Cash Flows
Financial Markets | Mar 08 2023 13:0210
Data Update 6 for 2023: A Wake up call for the Indebted?
Financial Markets | Feb 27 2023 11:0265
Data Update 5 for 2023: The Earnings Test
Financial Markets | Feb 15 2023 21:0137
Data Update 4 for 2023: Country Risk - Measures and Implications
Financial Markets | Feb 11 2023 23:0172
Data Update 1 for 2022: It is Moneyball Time!
Financial Markets | Feb 04 2023 23:0129
Control, Complexity and Politics: Deconstructing the Adani Affair!
Financial Markets | Feb 04 2023 22:4350
Disagreements and First Principles: The Pushback on my Tesla Valuation
Financial Markets | Feb 02 2023 18:2225
Data Update 3 for 2023: Inflation and Interest Rates
Financial Markets | Jan 30 2023 18:4366
Tesla in 2023: A Return to Reality, The Start of the End or Time to Buy?
Financial Markets | Jan 26 2023 18:0122
Data Update 2 for 2023: A Rocky Year for Equities!
Financial Markets | Jan 21 2023 20:0211
Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!
Financial Markets | Jan 06 2023 20:0235
A Return to Teaching: The Spring 2023 Edition
Financial Markets | Dec 21 2022 15:0226
META Lesson 3: Tell me a story!
Financial Markets | Nov 15 2022 18:0190
META Lesson 2: Accounting Inconsistencies and Consequences
Financial Markets | Nov 10 2022 15:0145
META Lesson 1: Corporate Governance
Financial Markets | Nov 04 2022 19:0339
Earnings and Cash Flows: A Primer on Free Cash Flow
Financial Markets | Oct 25 2022 19:0237
Reaping the Whirlwind: A September 2022 Inflation Update!
Financial Markets | Sep 26 2022 19:0332
A Zomato 2022 Update: Value, Pricing and the Gap
Financial Markets | Jul 27 2022 17:0412
Country Risk: A 2022 Mid-year Update!
Financial Markets | Jul 13 2022 16:0328
Risk Capital and Markets: A Temporary Retreat or Long Term Pull Back?
Financial Markets | Jul 01 2022 12:4329
ESG's Russia Test: Trial by Fire or Crash and Burn?
Financial Markets | Jun 30 2022 03:2221
The Corporate Tax Burden: Facts and Fiction
Financial Markets | Jun 23 2022 05:0332
A Follow up on Inflation: The Disparate Effects on Company Values!
Financial Markets | May 20 2022 19:0325
In Search of a Steady State: Inflation, Interest Rates and Value
Financial Markets | May 06 2022 19:0325
Elon's Twitter Play: Valuation and Corporate Governance Consequences
Financial Markets | Apr 21 2022 17:0330
ESG's Russia Test: Trial by Fire or Crash and Burn?
Financial Markets | Mar 28 2022 13:038
Russia and Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!
Financial Markets | Mar 19 2022 15:0369
Data Update 5 for 2022: The Bottom Line!
Financial Markets | Feb 27 2022 13:0553
Back to Earth or Temporary Setback? Revisiting the FANGAM Stocks
Financial Markets | Feb 12 2022 18:0117
Data Update 4 for 2022: Risk = Danger + Opportunity!
Financial Markets | Feb 08 2022 21:0430
Data Update 3: Inflation and its Ripple Effects!
Financial Markets | Jan 27 2022 10:0414
Data Update 2 for 2022: US Stocks kept winning in 2021, but…
Financial Markets | Jan 19 2022 18:0320
Data Update 1 for 2022: It is Moneyball Time!
Financial Markets | Jan 08 2022 15:0359
Back in the Classroom: Time to Teach!
Financial Markets | Dec 15 2021 12:4310
Managing across the Corporate Life Cycle: CEOs and Stock Prices!
Financial Markets | Dec 10 2021 19:0333
Tesla's Trillion Dollar Moment: A Valuation Revisit!
Financial Markets | Nov 09 2021 17:0330
The Billionaire Tax: The Worst Tax Idea Ever?
Financial Markets | Oct 25 2021 19:0121
Triggered Disclosures: Escaping the Disclosure Dilemma
Financial Markets | Oct 19 2021 13:0410
The Indian Smartphone Revolution: Paytm's Coming of Age IPO!
Financial Markets | Oct 11 2021 12:4328
The ESG Movement: The "Goodness" Gravy Train Rolls On!
Financial Markets | Oct 11 2021 12:4314
China's Tech Crackdown: Its about Control, not Consumers or Competition!
Financial Markets | Oct 11 2021 12:4317
A DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Valuation of Zomato
Financial Markets | Oct 11 2021 12:438
The Zomato IPO: A Bet on Big Markets and Platforms!
Financial Markets | Oct 11 2021 12:4311
Disclosure Dilemma: When more (data) leads to less (information)!
Financial Markets | Oct 11 2021 12:4312
The Rise of SPACs: IPO Disruptors or Blank Check Distortions?
Financial Markets | Oct 11 2021 12:435
Inflation and Investing: False Alarm or Fair Warning?
Financial Markets | Oct 11 2021 12:437
Investor Taxes and Stock Prices: Threading the Needle!
Financial Markets | Oct 11 2021 12:435
The Corporate Tax Burden: Facts and Fiction
Financial Markets | Oct 11 2021 12:439
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