Even Fizz Shows the Power of Dividends ☀️🥤
Berkshire Hathaway now collects more than $800 million per year in Coca-Cola dividends. Sometimes the most powerful investment strategy is also the simplest: buy great businesses and let time do the work.
🎨 A Basquiat Is About to Shake the Art World (Again)
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s electrifying masterpiece Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown) is heading to auction this May with a $45 million estimate. A reminder that passion, creativity, and courage can echo far beyond a lifetime.
📉 When the Bears Are Bulls
Hedge funds are shorting the market at one of the fastest paces in five years — yet they’re buying individual stocks again. A paradox that reveals the real opportunity for investors.
Jean Paul Gaultier’s Runway Started Smoking
When fashion dares to astonish, the runway becomes a stage — and creativity becomes smoke, spectacle, and statement. Jean-Paul Gaultier rocks!
🐎 Ten Horses Entered the Runway Before the Models
Ten horses entered the arena first. Five black. Five white. Only then did the models walk. At Paris Fashion Week, British-American designer Stella McCartney opened her Winter 2026 show in a riding hall in the Bois de Boulogne with a message that was as simple as it was elegant: Fashion can celebrate animals — rather than consume them. No leather.No fur.No feathers.No meat. Life first. The horses moved in quiet choreography around the sand ring while the models walked the perimeter — a reminder that beauty does not have to come at nature’s expense. “I want to feel like I’m actually really embracing women through these collections,” McCartney said, “and I don’t want the planet to suffer because of it.”...
🧠 Software’s Great Reset — And Why Insiders Are Buying
The North America Software Index has quietly reset, with valuations nearly halving to around 22× earnings. Hedge funds are closing shorts and insiders are buying shares of companies like ServiceNow, CoStar, and The Trade Desk. After one of the sharpest valuation compressions in years, opportunity may be emerging in software.
☢️ And the World’s Fourth-Largest Nuclear Power Is…
France holds roughly 290 nuclear warheads, making it the world’s fourth-largest nuclear power after Russia, the U.S., and China — a quiet reminder of the fragile balance shaping global security.
Travel At Your Own Risk?
France is Level 2. So are Italy and Germany. Travel advisories don’t mean “don’t go” — they mean “be alert.” A calm look at risk, reality, and wanderlust.
Hedge Funds Too Can Disappoint.
Hedge funds had a banner year in 2025. The S&P 500 still beat them. Over 16 years, the index has more than doubled the average hedge fund return. Complexity doesn’t guarantee outperformance.