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Priming the Pump Before November: Three Washington Tailwinds
Next week we’ll give you a video presentation of our first-half 2026 wrap-up and offer some thoughts as we enter the second half of the year. Beyond the MOU signed with Iran — which markets and the G7 have basically treated as a likely success — Washington has spent June
Talking About Tokens, Not “Tokens”
For most of the past decade, “tokenization,” in the minds of most investors, was in the same category as 2017’s meme coins and 2021’s million-dollar cartoon JPEGs of apes — a silly distraction in a then-madly exuberant fringe market, easy to wave away. If that’s still your view, it needs
Gravity Is Relentless… Even In Elon Musk’s Orbit
This Friday, June 12, SpaceX — now enlarged by the recent merger with Elon Musk’s xAI and the X platform — begins trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX. At the indicated initial pricing of $135 per share, the offering raises roughly $75 billion and implies a market value
When the Announcements Outpace the Concrete
There is a particular kind of chart that tends to make us equal parts pleased and uneasy: the parabola. Lines that bend skyward at an accelerating rate are exhilarating to own, painful to watch from the sidelines, and miserable to time, because the same steepness that rewards you on the
FOMO Is the New Fear Gauge
We all know that markets can climb walls of worry and brush off bad news even while the front pages scream about war and sanctions, and contrarian pundits worry about (or gloat over) the prospect of dollar collapse. The past several months have been a textbook illustration. The conflict with
Quiet Bull Markets In Real Things
We believe great financial advice starts with truly understanding your goals, needs, and circumstances. Schedule a meeting with our Client Relations Director to discover if Guild Investment Management has a solution that will work for you. This week we offer some thoughts inspired by our colleague, the redoubtable Larry Jeddeloh
