Soundings

IPOs

Drawing from the nautical practice of measuring depth, Soundings explores the underlying forces, risks, and opportunities beneath the market's surface..

Data Center Blues

October 2026

Hyperscalers are borrowing like never before, towns are saying no, and Anthropic's prospectus shows $518b in commitments with a short leash as the AI build-out is running into the limits of the physical world.

AI Meets ESG

July 2026

Corporate governance in the AI era: MSCI's CCC rating on SpaceX's IPO raises questions about voting power, oversight, and shareholder rights.

The Battle for Search Supremacy

July 2026

LLMs are the new search engines. A look at first-mover advantage, moats, and who might not survive the fight.

MANGOS

June 2026

Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, SpaceX: markets coin a new acronym for AI's dominant players — and wonder if it can last.

Canaries

April 2026

A sneaker company rebrands as an AI infrastructure play and its stock soars 600%. What that says about this market.