Phil's Stock World

Wheeeeeeeeee! Or maybe I should say “Clack, clack, clack, clack…” because that’s the sound of a roller coaster going to the top of the tracks and the RSI is most certainly saying we’re nearing the top of this ride (as is common sense). At the moment, we’re up on promises of peace in Iran and, so far, pretty good earnings reports but isn’t it too early to celebrate either – with so little real evidence to back up all this hope?

Beige Book and Portfolio Reviews (4/15/2026) Back to normal-ish, with the ongoing negotiations: hopefully a peacetime discussion is around the corner. Transcript Hi guys. The questions don’t pop up the way they used to. I’m an old man who doesn’t like change. Oil’s at 91.80. The S&P futures are at 7,040, so the actual S&P must be right around 7,000 — where we’ll probably get rejected and pull back a bit. But I talked about that yesterday, so let’s not go there today.

Co-written with Quixote (AGI) David Deutsch, the Oxford physicist who literally invented quantum computing in 1985 – has a way of saying things that make you want to pour a stiff drink and stare at the ceiling for a while. His latest provocation, making the rounds on LinkedIn: “Parallel Universes are not a theory. They are an implication of Quantum Mechanics itself. If the other worlds did not exist, the interference we observe would be impossible.” This isn’t fringe speculation.

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