I have tweeted about the 5200 level on the S&P ($SPX) many times this year and today we again fell below the critical level. We couldn’t get over it in March, April or May and finally broke over in June. Watch this level. if we can’t get above it quickly … we will fall further

Me … watching the stock market for weeks … ready to blast off …

I just voted!! How about you??

For those old enough to know what this is. Prove you rocked it … post your I VOTED sticker.

AAII Investor Sentiment Survey is the most bullish it’s been since January 21, 2025. Ironically that was literally the top with a 3-month drop immediately following. Is the market too bullish right now?

Buckle up …

Systems don’t fail from a single event — they break where silos hide weak links. Organizational boundaries without shared oversight are a root driver of cascading risk. Operational resilience begins with integrated risk visibility. mexicobusiness.news/tech/news/comp…

The big guys are screaming at you to take cover. Year to date performance … US indexes QQQ -2.23% SPY -0.10% Consumer Staples +14.50% International VXUS +8.87% Commodities & Metals DBC +6.44% Gold +13.93% Bonds +0.40% The flight to safety is on.

The 5 biggest retailers in the US by size. Year to date performance … 1) Walmart up 19.95% 2) Amazon DOWN 13.53% 3) Costco up 15.83% 4) Home Depot up 13.40% 5) Kroger up 12.28% Is the AI trade dead or is Amazon being unfairly treated here?

Classified environments require robust internal controls. Whistleblower channels, escalation clarity, and oversight independence are not political — they’re structural safeguards in any high-risk system. wsj.com/politics/natio…

AI adoption is accelerating faster than institutional guardrails. The deeper issue isn’t the ruling — it’s the widening gap between how tools feel and how data is actually governed. Systems fail where perception and policy diverge.

Global risk is now an enterprise risk — and IT leaders are feeling it first. From AI governance gaps to infrastructure fragility, resilience must replace efficiency as the default design principle. techtarget.com/searchcio/feat…

ft.com/content/375b66…   A utility’s governance gap didn’t emerge overnight — internal audit and oversight mechanisms matter long before headlines hit. Invisible weaknesses in governance structures are predictable points of stress in every system.

For those that don’t know Ray Dalio … Multi-billionaire made his money running a hedge fund focusing entirely on bonds. The guy understands how the world’s money and economies work and has spent much of his life studying history. He doesn’t paint a pretty picture …

The real risk isn’t AI — it’s the mismatch between user perception and system design A conversational interface feels confidential. Platform architecture and data policy may say otherwise When UX signals privacy but governance doesn’t guarantee it, exposure becomes predictable

Commerce department released trade deficit #’s for December. Trump is wanting to take credit for the first surplus ever, but it came in worse than the month prior. And annually (2025) was essentially the same as 2024. Tariffs don’t seem to be helping.

US GDP numbers out this morning … “the US economy grew 2.2%, a modest slowdown from the 2.8% growth seen in 2024”

The lawsuits now as to where the tariff money the government collected is going to go … Does it go to companies that paid more, importers that absorbed some of it, or you and I. What a mess

Now we get to watch all the companies scramble trying to figure out how to justify not lowering their prices …