Investments
Five Things To Think About
“It is human nature to overestimate risk and underestimate opportunity.” Jeff Bezos Here are a few things I’ve been thinking about lately. Bad Days Happen Last Friday, the S&P 500 fell 2.6%, marking the worst day of the year. Yes, it didn’t feel good, but after the historic nine-week rally, it would have been foolish …
Ryan Detrick
June 12, 2026
Forget The 1990s, Here’s Why This Could Be Like the Late 1960s
With the huge run-up in AI-related stocks, the obvious comparison everyone makes is to the 1990s. However, beyond the fact that we have transformational technology in the works now, akin to the internet in the 1990s, there’s not a lot else that’s common. For one thing, real GDP growth averaged 4.5% from 1996-1999, whereas it’s …
Sonu Varghese
June 12, 2026
An Advisor’s Guide to the Bucketing Investment Approach: What, Why, and How
Retirement portfolio management presents a fundamentally different set of challenges than accumulation-phase investing. The transition from building wealth to distributing it introduces risks that traditional asset allocation frameworks were never fully designed to address. Among the most compelling structural solutions to emerge from decades of practice is the bucketing investment approach, a time-segmented framework that …
Carson Research
June 11, 2026
Live from Chicago with Jim Bianco and Jeff Kilberg (FvF Ep. 191)
In Episode 191 of Facts vs. Feelings, Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist at Carson Group, and Sonu Varghese, Chief Macro Strategist at Carson Group, go live from Chicago with Jeff Kilburg, Founder and CEO & CIO at KKM Financial, and Jim Bianco, President at Bianco Research, for a wide-ranging conversation on where markets stand now …
Ryan Detrick
June 10, 2026
Beyond the Pitch: How the 2026 World Cup Could Shape the U.S. Economy and Markets
Starting this week, the most-watched sporting event on the planet officially kicks off. What makes this year’s FIFA World Cup more special for the United States is that this is the first time our country has served as a host of the tournament since 1994. However, this year’s tournament has two unique traits compared to …
Joel Riha-Aldrich
June 9, 2026
Talking the SpaceX IPO (Continued)
I was honored to be a guest on Facts vs Feelings last week! Ryan, Sonu, and I tackled one of the hottest topics of 2026 – the SpaceX IPO. Below are some of the charts I referenced when talking about SpaceX (the company) and SPCX (the IPO)! I’ve added a couple of additional points we …
Blake Anderson
June 8, 2026
Charts of the Week: June 1-5
Thanks for reading this week’s Charts of the Week This week’s charts talk about the re-accelerating labor market, entry-level unemployment, company margins, and June’s return history. We’ll keep publishing Charts of the Week every Monday. To view this week’s Charts of the Week, click here: Charts of the Week: June 1-5
Carson Research
June 8, 2026
The Labor Market is Perfectly Fine, Thank You Very Much
So much for the “AI is killing jobs” narrative, let alone “the Fed should keep rates low to protect the labor market”. We’ve been in the camp since the start of the year that the labor market looks better than a lot of economists, market bears, and even the good folks at the Federal Reserve …
Sonu Varghese
June 5, 2026
The Investment Spectrum Guide
Many people, when they start paying attention to investing, run into the same problem: the vocabulary is enormous, and nobody explains how the pieces fit together. Stocks, bonds, ETFs, mutual funds, CDs, money markets, private equity, venture capital… it sounds like a different language, and the financial world tends to assume you already know it. …
Harry McDonald
June 4, 2026
The Summer of Mega-IPOs
With the upcoming SpaceX IPO and Anthropic also filing a confidential draft S-1, IPOs are in the news, to say the least. I thought it would be interesting to look at some historical stats on IPOs, and conveniently, Professor Jay Ritter at the University of Florida maintains a comprehensive IPO data hub covering IPOs from …
Sonu Varghese
June 3, 2026
Talking SpaceX IPO (FvF Ep. 190)
In Episode 190 of Facts vs Feelings, Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist at Carson Group, and Sonu Varghese, Chief Macro Strategist at Carson Group, take on the SpaceX IPO and what it could mean for indexes, mega-cap weights, and the next phase of the AI trade. They’re joined by Blake Anderson, Director of Portfolio Management …
Ryan Detrick
June 3, 2026
Earnings Check-In: Q1 2026 Finishes Strong
How this works (a quick one-time intro): Each week during earnings season we will begin to publish a short read on how S&P 500 companies are doing. It’s built from FactSet’s Earnings Insight report (John Butters), with index and market-cap data from YCharts, aggregated in-house. Every figure ties back to FactSet’s published numbers; we simply …
Harry McDonald
June 2, 2026