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Your Weekly Biotech News Fix | Ep. 1114

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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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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BIOTECH MARKET RESEARCH $SMMT | Ep. 1112

Summit Therapeutics ($SMMT) is a catalyst-driven setup centered on the November 14, 2026 FDA PDUFA for ivonescimab plus platinum-doublet chemotherapy in patients with advanced or metastatic EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer…

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The Business of Gene Editing | Ep. 1111

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’re diving into the…

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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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Your Weekly Biotech News Fix | Ep. 1109

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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The End of the Impossible Trial | Ep. 1108

Hello Avatar! Welcome to another week of biotech analysis. Today’s commentary, as always on Thursday, focuses on the general market update. This week confirmed the playbook. Biotech can rally and capital can return quickly, but…

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Is Your Company On the Right Side of the K and AI?

Welcome Avatar! Considering all the tech news we thought it would be a good time to quantify how some of our mega themes are playing out. The mega themes are still the same: 1) degeneracy, 2) loneliness, 3) K-shape Economy - rich…

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The Biotech Valuation Paradox | Ep. 1107

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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BIOTECH MARKET RESEARCH $SYRE | Ep. 1106

Spyre Therapeutics ($SYRE) is a catalyst-driven setup centered on the expected Q4 2026 Phase 2 SKYWAY readouts for SPY072 in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). This is a clinical data catalyst testing…

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Entrepreneurs Invest Too Much and Why You Will Too

Welcome Avatar! Several Jungle natives have created 7-8 figure brands at this point. With that in mind we think it’s a good time to give you a clean explainer for why Entrepreneurs end up over investing. This is the inverted…

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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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China’s Quiet Clinical Revolution | Ep. 1105

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’re diving into the…

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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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Q4 Sell-Off Shopping List - Quick Update

Welcome Avatar! Well it is officially October 16 so its time to actually care about crypto and high-tech. We’re seeing higher oil prices, bad inflation prints, likely some layoffs in the near-term and back to the money printer…

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The IRS Just Let You Fork Your Crypto Books

Welcome Avatar! This is a bonus guest post (standard paid post on Wednesday Night still coming) since we know we’re at tax deadline. For those that need an update we have a CPA here who does nothing buy crypto taxes. Best to get…

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Using AI Will Make the K-Shape Worse

Welcome Avatar! If you’re a good operator, you’re not worried about AI. That has remained true the entire year. In fact, entry level people abusing AI are only making their lives worse. If the higher up recognizes that the…

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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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Revisiting Trump and Putin’s Friendship

Trump has revoked more energy sanctions on Russia with the excuse of the ongoing diesel crisis. “Never let a crisis go to waste,” as they say. This is something I mentioned in March: how the geopolitical progressions would likely…

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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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October 2026 Asset Summary

I’m going to start doing a monthly asset summary (thanks to for the excellent suggestion). This will be nice because: My articles are generally concept-focused and finding my overall market views by reading through all my notes…

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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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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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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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“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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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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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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Cabin Fever - Part 2

Around 2008, when I was in the pest control business, the company I worked for serviced a large hotel chain. When we did pest control work for a large commercial brand, we would call those “National Accounts”. They were IMPORTANT…

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