Week in review of the events impacting the markets
Aug 2, 2026
A channel nobody could actually watch launched at one minute past midnight with a song about a technology killing the one before it. Forty-four years later its music channels played that exact same video and went dark.
Aug 1, 2026
The S&P gained 1%. Underneath it, a 32-point pileup and three Fed officials voting to raise rates.
Jul 31, 2026
Same AI bill, same night, opposite verdicts. Plus a memory shortage that quietly became everyone's problem.
Jul 30, 2026
A shorter statement, no road map, and a market that filled the silence with the worst thing it could think of.
Jul 29, 2026
One tape, two completely different movies, and a lithography machine nobody thought China could build.
Jul 28, 2026
The S&P closed flat. That is the most dishonest number on the board.
Jul 27, 2026
Fed decides Wednesday. Inflation lands on Thursday. Four of the biggest companies report in between.
Jul 26, 2026
In 1902 a Brooklyn print shop couldn't get the colors to line up. The fix accidentally built the American Sun Belt.
