Puddings

The market’s mood swing today coincided with a rare phenomenon in New York: collective happiness. The Knicks, newly crowned NBA champions, rolled up Broadway beneath a blizzard of ticker tape and decades of accumulated hope. At City Hall, Mayor Zohran Mamdani presented the team with keys to the city and remarked that grit, tenacity, and…

“You want the Moon? Just say the word and I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.” That of course is George Bailey’s famous line from It’s a Wonderful Life, intended as romance, not investment advice. Yet it is remarkably appropriate this week. As a sultry early summer settles over New England with…

Summer is finally beginning to show signs of life on the East Coast. And, for the first time in a long while, the financial markets, professional sports, and technological ambition seem to be telling the same story. Next Friday, if current reports prove accurate, SpaceX is expected to make its long-awaited public debut, a listing…

It seems that old Wall Street adage: “Sell in May and Go Away” attempted another comeback tour this year. Yet by month’s end, the market did what it so often does with neat little narratives: dismissed it. The saying itself dates back centuries to London’s financial district, where merchants and bankers noticed that returns tended…

Memorial Day on Monday marks the unofficial start of summer, a poignant reminder of tenacity. It also marks graduation season. Forty plus commencements in Connecticut alone. And if you’re anything like us, you don’t remember the commencement speech. Those worth hearing sound wise in the moment, then dissolve quickly into life’s greatest and most humbling…

This Sunday, the restaurant industry will log its single biggest day of the year. It’s not New Years Eve or Valentine’s Day. It’s Mother Day. All across America, families will pack into dining rooms for “all you care to eat” brunch buffets. But let’s step back from the brunch chaos for a moment. For most,…

This year’s Eurovision may already be peaking with a Finnish performer dressed, according to The Guardian, like “a baked potato wrapped in aluminum foil” while snapping violin strings on live television. Which, honestly, feels like an appropriate metaphor for markets this week. Every May, Europe gathers for three nights of choreography, geopolitical voting patterns, emotional…

When King Charles III and Queen Camilla glided through their American visit this week with that distinctly British restraint, they seemed to grasp something the market has forgotten. They did not chase attention. They did not perform for applause. They simply reassured which, in typical tradition, has always been enough. It is what those across…

Rod Sterling’s iconic opening line in The Twilight Zone: “Between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge” aptly captures sentiment this week. The market feels rather less like the efficient machine we once took it for, a sobering realization for those who thought they understood the rules, only to find the…