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Hosted by Cosmic Trex · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 200 episodes
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Your daily guide to an increasingly complex world. Markets, crypto, AI, geopolitics, and the mental models that connect them — from Cosmic Trex, where ancient wisdom meets the cutting edge.
Cosmic Trex hosts Markets, Meditations, and Mental Models, a business show with 200 episodes published.
The Strait Is Open and Empty. COSCO Shipping and China Merchants Energy Shipping, the two Chinese state shipping majors, have kept roughly 12 supertankers out on security grounds, loading at Fujairah and in Oman instead.
Long-dated Treasury yields sat at their highest since 2007 and the S&P gave up two thirds of a percent while the most re-rated corner of it lost more than five. Tonight's brief has no single story running through it, and
Stripe Buys the Off-Ramp. OpenRouter's entire product is helping companies move between AI models. Committed AI capital spending runs to roughly $2 trillion through 2026 and is rigid. Realised price is not: per-token pri
Stripe agreed to pay more than seven billion dollars for a company whose whole product is making AI models interchangeable, and that price is the clearest read tonight on what a position is worth. The answer running thro
Good News Stopped Paying. None of the three cites the others: Robin Brooks on the yen, which got a much wider rate gap and did not rebound; Glassnode on bitcoin, fading at record equity highs; Joseph Wang, whose weekly w
Equities closed a third straight up week, absorbing a retail-sales miss and a sentiment slump without breaking the streak, while three unrelated markets refused to rally on the same dovish data: the yen, the long bond an
Almost nothing happened this week and almost everything moved, because the prices that changed were computed off dates rather than events. Brent added better than five percent without a single new barrel going missing, i
The Calendar Did the Repricing. Monday Tehran was still distinguishing between negotiating lanes through Hormuz and reopening it, while replacing its own negotiator with a commander sceptical of talks. By Thursday neithe
Friday broke the American consumer in two directions at once and almost nothing traded it. Retail sales fell for the first time in nine months, Michigan sentiment printed 51.0 against July's 55.2, and long yields rose in
The Sale Moved to June and July Took the Blame. Consensus looked for a gain. Strip motor vehicles and gasoline and the drop is 0.2 percent, inside a confidence interval that includes zero. What broke is nonstore retail,
Suspended Until November, Priced Since August. Beijing announced controls on holmium, erbium, thulium, europium and ytterbium in October 2025, then suspended them a month later for one year. Those five go into lasers, nu
Thursday's tape bought relief. Producer prices came in flat on the month, the two-year fell six basis points, September hike odds went from about half to roughly a third, and equities closed at a record. Underneath that,
Three Chokepoints, One Emptying Magazine. Two US officials gave the New York Times that figure. At roughly $4 million each it is $200 million in a day, fired at Shahed-class drones costing near $50,000, an 80-to-1 exchan
Wednesday's inflation print landed exactly on consensus and the market cut September hike odds from a coin flip to roughly two in five, which reads as the war getting cheaper. The physical stocks holding that calm in pla
The Fed Got Cheaper and Nothing Else Did. The AI cloud provider reported revenue of $2.58 billion, up 112 percent, and adjusted profit of $1.51 billion at a 59 percent margin. That margin is arithmetically correct and it
Two prices for the same dollar moved in opposite directions on Tuesday and both were confidently quoted. The market cut September rate-hike odds from roughly two-thirds to under half in a week, which is the front end pri
Half a Trillion Dollars Bought Zero Days. It signed memorandums on Monday with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to finance chips, power and data centres, and Jensen Huang told CNBC the chi
Money, court orders and signed agreements were all abundant over the past few days and almost none of it converted into effect. Nvidia lined up more than half a trillion dollars of private capital for AI infrastructure a
Stocks closed Friday at a record on their best week in months, and the number underneath that week was 23,000 jobs lost. What stands out is where this week's prices came from: almost every one was computed from a compari
Greg Abel Bought the Dip That Never Came. Berkshire bought about $4.5 billion of itself last quarter after buying none since May 2024. Buffett deleted the 1.2 times book cap in 2018 and replaced it with his own estimate
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