David Merkel @AlephBlogDM

The two main goals: teaching investors about better investing through risk control, and tying all of the markets into a coherent whole. alephblog.com Baltimore, Maryland Joined September 2011

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David Merkel @AlephBlogDM

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SpaceX agreed to acquire wireless spectrum from Charlie Ergen’s EchoStar for about $17 billion in cash and stock bloomberg.com/news/articles/… The public markets get a SpaceX proxy --> $SATS

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"We've never seen this before": Trump's drug war looks like a real war axios.com/2025/09/04/tru… Not that I am in favor of what Trump is doing here, but Obama ordered the killings of many individuals via drone strikes, including one US citizen.

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Lumber prices are falling—due to deteriorating housing demand and tariff uncertainty—and that’s sounding an alarm on Wall Street about potential Main Street problems wsj.com/finance/commod… Lumber prices down & gold prices up is a sign of economic weakness.

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State of Permanent Fake Emergency (Today, the structure of law granting exceptional emergency powers is a grave threat to democracy and an avenue toward authoritarian rule.) theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… Courts should say that emergencies require a "surprising change" requiring haste.

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Delete, Delete, Delete: How FCC Republicans are killing rules faster than ever arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… If rules are really that obsolete, what's the hurry? Use the ordinary process...

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The Right Way to Tap Private Investments for Retirement Plans barrons.com/articles/priva… Wrong. Public investments are transparent and deliver superior returns. They are also liquid.

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Creditors that had backed Technicolor for years through several liquidity crunches are set to recover next to nothing. bloomberg.com/features/2025-… Who knew that Technicolor was a firm? I thought it was just a technology.

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Tesla is in a sales slump, with deliveries of its electric vehicles on track to decline for the second year in a row. Here’s what to know about the EV maker’s struggles. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… A bright guy with too many hats to wear.

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Wellington Management is a rarity in the investment world: a fund manager with more than $1 trillion of assets and almost zero brand recognition. That’s about to change bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Decided they wanted to manage higher fee products, which are typically sold not bought

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blasted the Fed for “mission creep” and called for an independent review of the Fed, including its monetary policy bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Yes, the Fed shouldn't have done QE. But the Fed has to supervise banks or monetary policy won't transmit