Author: Megan Burrows

Somewhere along Interstate 80 on the final weekend of April, a truck driver is squinting through what the Cheyenne National Weather Service kindly described as “patchy, dense freezing fog.” Brake lights are seen smearing into the white on a webcam. By any standard, spring ought to be well underway. The Rockies missed the memo. Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana are experiencing a late-season storm that is dumping anywhere from a few inches in the foothills to almost two feet across the higher passes. When forecasters use the word “dangerous,” they don’t usually use it carelessly. Reading the bulletins gives me the…

The fact that Scott Steiner’s son plays for the Tennessee Titans seems somewhat appropriate. Just the team’s name seems to be waiting for a Steiner. After failing to be selected during the three days of the 2026 NFL Draft in Pittsburgh, Jacksonville State wide receiver Brock Rechsteiner, the son of the wrestler formerly known as Big Poppa Pump, signed an undrafted free agent contract with Tennessee on Sunday. “Titan Up!” was his father’s two-word response, which he posted to X. A little dad moment from a man who made a career out of being anything but small—no essay, no compilation…

Following a country breakup announcement, there’s a certain amount of silence, and Neon Union’s farewell Instagram post had plenty of it. The two men who had shared stages, songs, and a record deal for more than four years, Leo Brooks and Andrew Millsaps, merely stated that the chapter was coming to an end. Nothing dramatic. No feud was leaked. It’s just a slideshow of old pictures with a few paragraphs each, written in a way that Nashville artists sometimes manage to be disarmingly honest without going overboard. On April 24, 2026, the announcement was made, and within hours, the post’s…

One type of investment trap is difficult to recognize until you’ve already fallen into it. A nearly ideal example is CONY, the YieldMax COIN Option Income Strategy ETF. In a world where 10-year Treasuries pay about 4 percent, the fund’s advertised distribution rate of 72.63 percent seems almost ridiculous. But upon closer inspection, a more subdued narrative becomes apparent. On April 24, 2026, the latest weekly distribution was made up of just 3.46 percent actual income and 96.54 percent return of capital. In essence, investors are receiving their money back and being informed that this is a yield. Although the…

When a stock loses 25% of its value in a single session, a certain silence descends upon it. Charter Communications lost $61.65 per share by Friday’s close, closing the day at $180.13, a 25.5 percent decline that is the worst in the company’s history for a single day. A new 52-week low was also reached at the intraday low of $178. The decline has the feel of a larger narrative developing rather than just one poor earnings day for a stock that reached as high as $437.06 during the previous year. The trigger was fairly simple. Charter lost 120,000 internet…

It’s difficult to ignore the ambition that permeates Ripple these days when Brad Garlinghouse speaks. For more than a year, the CEO of the company has predicted that by 2030, XRP could account for about 14% of SWIFT’s cross-border transaction volume. That’s a big assertion. Through its messaging network, which links over 11,000 banks, SWIFT transfers about $150 trillion annually. Approximately $21 trillion in annual flow, or 14% of that total, is a figure that, if you think about it long enough, begins to seem almost theatrical. However, Ripple has been rearranging things in a way that makes the claim…

Watching a small semiconductor stock explode like Max Linear did last Friday is almost surreal. By the time the closing bell rang, MXL had risen 76.12 percent to $60.32, barely missing an intraday high of $63.52, which the company hadn’t reached since 2022. The move felt more like a real-time market re-rating than an earnings bounce for a stock that had dropped as low as $9.07 in the previous year. A Q1 earnings report that exceeded analysts’ projections by all measures served as the impetus. Revenue came in at $137.2 million, up 43 percent year-over-year. In contrast to the $0.18…

You can picture a specific type of room in Santa Clara right now. The soft glow of dashboards on monitors, glass walls, and the quiet hum of a conference room after a difficult earnings call. ServiceNow had just completed a successful quarter by all clinical standards. Revenue increased by 22%. Revenue from subscriptions was $3.671 billion. Advice was given. Nevertheless, in a single afternoon, the stock dropped by about 18%, the biggest one-day drop in the company’s history since its 2012 IPO. From a distance, it’s difficult to avoid getting the impression that something bigger than ServiceNow is being priced…

The minutes before something breaks on a trading floor are marked by a certain kind of silence. Silence isn’t actually silence, as anyone who has strolled through the lower Manhattan canyons in the late afternoon, past the bronze bull and the ring of barricades, will attest. Instead, it’s the murmur of brokers leaning over keyboards, the hum of screens, and a sort of held breath. That sound has returned. Not too loud yet. However, there. The well-known metric used by Warren Buffett to compare the total value of US stocks to the nation’s economic output has risen to about 227%.…

Twenty years later, the pumpjacks outside Midland continue to nod in the same sluggish rhythm. The same flares burn against the same Texas sky, the same trucks rumble down the same dusty service roads, and an executive is probably still being asked when the music will stop somewhere in a Houston boardroom. The odd thing is that no one has a definitive response in 2026. Solar power has skyrocketed. Sales of EVs continue to rise. Coal should be eligible for a wake because it has been pronounced dead so many times. However, the world’s oil consumption has risen above 100…