“Excess generally causes reaction”… BlackRock’s assets under management hit a record $14 trillion after strong market rallies and significant inflows, driven by ETF demand and broad investor optimism.
“You’ve got a friend in me”… State regulators have picked up the slack from the SEC scaling back enforcement as they continue to aggressively police areas the SEC has deprioritized.
“The earth laughs in flowers, but it pays dividends in land”… Billionaire Stan Kroenke, owner of the Los Angeles Rams, became America’s largest private landowner with over 2.7 million acres after buying nearly 1 million New Mexico ranch acres, highlighting a billionaire shift toward land.
“The biggest risk is assuming there is no risk”… Recovery rates for high-yield bonds and leveraged loans have plunged to 36%, well below long-term averages, yet default rates remain at 2.75% and spreads remain near historical tight levels – suggesting credit spreads may be misaligned with deteriorated loss severity.
“And tidal waves couldn’t save the world from Californication”… A proposed California ballot initiative would impose a one-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires, intensifying inequality debates, alarming tech leaders, prompting some billionaires to move out of the state, and straining relations with Gavin Newsom (despite his opposition to the initiative).
“And the fields are full of dancing, full of singing and romancing, the music never stopped”… US private-equity dealmaking rebounded in 2025, reaching about $1.2 trillion across 9,000+ deals, the second-highest year on record, driven primarily by a surge in $1B-plus mega-deals that accounted for a record majority of total value.
“I keep my hand on my gun ’cause they got me on the run”!!! Since 2020, more than 215 physical crypto attacks have been documented globally (with many more not reported), and 2025 doubled 2024. Criminals kidnap, beat, or torture victims to force disclosure of wallet passwords or seed phrases to steal their digital assets.
“I’m back, back in the New York groove”??? Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s NYC Token plunged sharply after launch, dropping roughly 80% as blockchain on-chain data showed $2.5M liquidity withdrawn (with about $1M net extracted) triggering rug-pull accusations, denied by Adams.
Fool me once??? President Trump pardoned San Diego businesswoman Adriana Camberos who he first granted clemency in 2021 – she later committed a separate fraud scheme that led to her 2024 conviction for lying to manufacturers to sell wholesale goods and making tens of millions of dollars in illicit profits, a conviction now wiped out by the pardon.
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