1. January Close Gives Us Good Probability for 2026
Ryan Detrick
2. Historically February Has Been Weak Month
Dave Lutz at Jones Trading February is one of two months (September being the other) that is negative on average since 1950, the past 10 years, and the past 20 years.
3. Change in Fed Chair Has Historic Short-Term Volatility
4. Material Stocks Massive Inflows to Start 2026-10x Past Years
Mike Zaccardi
5. Gold Market Cap vs. Global Stock Market Still Low
Tavi Costa
6. AI Productivity Boost Just Kicking in for Companies??? Prof G Market Letter
PROF G MEDIA
7. Revenue Per Employee on the Upswing
Gavin Baker
8. Space X IPO $1.5T
chartr
9. Greenland 1.5m Metric Tons of Rare Earths
Visual Capitalist
10. Ray Kroc -He Opened McDonalds at 52 Years Old
Brain Food Shane Parish
Ray Kroc turned McDonald’s from a single roadside restaurant into a system built to scale.
At 52, after decades of selling paper cups and milkshake machines, he opened “the first McDonald’s” in 1955 and helped grow it to nearly 8,000 restaurants worldwide.
Here’s the story of McDonald’s
Some Tiny Lessons from this episode:
- “I was an overnight success all right. But thirty years is a long, long night.”
- Do a few things. Do them perfectly.
- Trust isn’t built in grand gestures. It’s built when you could take the last slice and don’t.
- What you refuse to do matters more than what you do.
Dreams are only wasted if they’re not linked to action.