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Markets, macro, personal finance and biotech investing from the BowTied jungle. 6 publications, newest posts first.

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Money

Q4 Puke is Here What We’re Doing (quick note)

Welcome Avatar! Looks like all possible forces to send markets down are working at once. We have the following: 1) Rates going back up and remaining high with the 10-year at 5%, 2) Mortgage rates have finally caught up to the…

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Money

Your Weekly Biotech News Fix | Ep. 1126

Hello Avatar! Another week of biotech news is in the history books. We are proud to bring you the latest edition of our weekly biotech news fix. The content is designed to be consumed as a quick scroll to bring readers up to…

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Notes from Underwater BowTiedLobster
Money

In markets, months can happen in days

It looks like we’re going into a period of volatility where 4 months of “normal” price action can happen in one day. (Think about Liberation Day and the subsequent lifting of those tariffs.) Periods like this are when those who…

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The Biotech Recovery Has a Catch | Ep. 1124

Hello Avatar! Welcome to the BowtiedBiotech podcast, where science meets business! If you're fascinated by breakthrough biotech, bold innovations, and the business behind the science, you're in the right place. Each week, we dive…

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Money

Quick Update from NVDA CEO Out

Welcome Avatar! It looks like NVDA has made an extremely emotional decision. They have decided to get rid of Jensen before the investigation was even completed into the affair situation. If he was simply hooking up with some…

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Money

Feels a Lot Like 2016. NVDA and AI + Crypto

Welcome Avatar! Been a hilarious week in the market. Mainly highlighted by the tired and true: Ladies Leverage and Liquor that Jensen is highlighting once again (second time apparently!). There is no real reason to care about a…

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Money

Grok Bot Rug Pull & the Rise of Local AI

Welcome Avatar! We have a guest post this Monday with BowTiedStack As with all Guest Posts, this is entirely Written by BowTiedStack. A CTO for & Engineer for an AI Startup We’ll add our thoughts on Wednesday but think its a…

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BIOTECH MARKET RESEARCH $SVRA | Ep. 1123

Savara ($SVRA) is a near-term regulatory catalyst centered on the November 22, 2026 FDA PDUFA for MOLBREEVI (molgramostim inhalation solution) in autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (autoimmune PAP), a rare lung disease…

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Engineering the Next Wave of ADCs | Ep. 1122

Hello Avatar! Welcome back for another week of biotech analysis. Today is Sunday, which means this is our Building Biotech newsletter that is focused on discussing biopharma strategy topics. This week we break down the next wave…

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Money

Things That Are Worth The Money

Welcome Avatar! Another adhoc post on various things you should consider spending money on. We’ve stated for a long period of time that the frugality people have it wrong. If you live extremely cheap for 30 years just to live…

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Money

Your Weekly Biotech News Fix | Ep. 1120

Hello Avatar! Another week of biotech news is in the history books. We are proud to bring you the latest edition of our weekly biotech news fix. The content is designed to be consumed as a quick scroll to bring readers up to…

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Money

BIOTECH MARKET RESEARCH $CORT | Ep. 1117

Corcept Therapeutics ($CORT) is a regulatory-reversal catalyst centered on the December 17, 2026 FDA PDUFA for relacorilant in Cushing’s syndrome. The FDA already reviewed the application once and issued a Complete Response…

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BowTied Bull BowTiedBull
Money

Laundry List of Things for Middle Age

Welcome Avatar! Completely different post style today. Has been a long time since we did something like this and it’ll be useful for people looking ahead into middle age. Also useful for anyone in this general ball park.…

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Money

October Q&A and Portfolio Update

Welcome Avatar! It’s time for the monthly Q&A. Considering that we’re into Q4 and we’re seeing equities start to waver + crypto trade decently despite the noise, you can imagine we’ll be sticking to our plan. That said, there are…

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Money

Short Post on Binance Hack + Tech Earnings

Welcome Avatar! In a rare case we’ll go ahead and chime in on this recent event. Like any of these big scary headlines it usually ends up being (relatively) predictable. In addition to that, we did get some quick earnings after…

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Money

Direct Indexing - A Better ETF?

Welcome back. The end of the year is coming in hot. You know how it goes, Halloween → Thanksgiving → Christmas → New Years. And we also have the added benefit of nearly every member in the extended family having a Q4 birthday.…

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Real Yields and TIPS Markets

It is a common line of reasoning to cite the real yield-inflation breakeven decomposition and conclude that the move in bonds in the U.S. lately is showing rising growth expectations and not pricing any inflation. Read more

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You Stand Up for Yourself

(I have multiple completed drafts from many months ago when this newsletter was figuring out its niche. My most recent article on austerity and inflation is unusually long so I’m taking the opportunity this week to share this…

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Money

Back To Mortgages Part 2

Welcome back. Last week we went through all the silly arguments being made for why paying off a historically cheap mortgage is ‘better’ than keeping the mortgage plus buying significantly higher yielding US Treasury. Here is the…

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Money

Back To Mortgages

Thanks to BowTiedBull, my twitter feed is about 50% tweets about mortgage payoff - the other 50% is a mix of social security arguing and the standard nonsense that you have no idea why its popping up. If you have been a reader…

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Diversification

“Two is one, and one is none” This is the common saying used by faux Boomer prep-ers when they justify all the stuff they own. If you have ever been doing some handy work and realize you are missing some niche and expensive tool…

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5% to 1% to 0.1%: What It Really Takes

The Bell Curve. A lot of you may only be familiar with the bell curve from the memes. However, it is a concept that springs up again and again in the actual world. There are millions of these memes out there for every topic…

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Money

Hacks, Crypto, and Bad Maf

Welcome back. This week we are combining a reader request for some thoughts about crypto with a vaguely crypto adjacent topic of hacks/scams and accounts being drained. The example of the hack in this post is a new one that I…

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Money

Not Smarter. Not Harder.

Welcome Back Dear Reader. Do you consider yourself smart? Do you feel like you work hard? Yet, do you still feel like you are being left behind? Would you spend $204 for a $1 bill? You are not alone. In fact, a lot of smart and…

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Money

“The Wealthy don’t buy Life Insurance”

Welcome back. Let’s start this week’s post with some good news. The Michael Dell philanthropy money for the Trump Accounts hit the lil F’ers accounts a few days ago. As discussed in the post about Trump accounts, there was some…

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Money

2026Q3 Random Topics & $1,000 Free Money

Welcome back. Another week in the rearview and we are rolling into the last month of Q3. Every quarter there is a handful of topics that would be a stretch to make their own post, but fit perfectly as smaller, condensed sections.…

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Money

Myths About Wealth & The Wealthy

Welcome Back. This week’s post is brought to you by one of the misguided budgetpoor accounts on twitter and a rehash (and probably scheduled to go off once every month) tweet: There are just so many directions you can go on…

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