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Susan Price
Susan Price

Founder & Auditor. Financial Engineer. Trusting data, not words.

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The Postmortem

▪️ Policyholders Pulled About $4 Billion Out of Executive Life in One Year.

Sep 9, 2026

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▪️ Policyholders Pulled About $4 Billion Out of Executive Life in One Year.

Withdrawals ran through 1990, and California and New York stepped in the following April.

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The Postmortem

▪️ Cleaning One Reactor at Three Mile Island Took Fourteen Years and $760 Million.

Sep 8, 2026

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▪️ Cleaning One Reactor at Three Mile Island Took Fourteen Years and $760 Million.

About 43,000 curies of krypton were vented before anyone could enter the reactor building in July 1980.

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The Postmortem

▪️ The Sherman Act Caps Fines at $10 Million. ADM Paid $100 Million.

Sep 7, 2026

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▪️ The Sherman Act Caps Fines at $10 Million. ADM Paid $100 Million.

The statute allows twice the gain or twice the loss instead, whichever of those two is greater.

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The Postmortem

▪️ The Phrase Too Big to Fail Was Coined in This Hearing Room.

Sep 6, 2026

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▪️ The Phrase Too Big to Fail Was Coined in This Hearing Room.

In December 1984 the GAO reported that two classes of institution had formed under one regulatory system.

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The Postmortem

▪️ The Internal Auditor Found It Before Arthur Andersen or the Market Did

Sep 5, 2026

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▪️ The Internal Auditor Found It Before Arthur Andersen or the Market Did

Cynthia Cooper raised it in May 2002; the audit committee chairman brought in KPMG on June 12.

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The Postmortem

▪️ Four Waste Management Officers Paid Back $30.9 Million. Investors Lost More.

Sep 4, 2026

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▪️ Four Waste Management Officers Paid Back $30.9 Million. Investors Lost More.

The judgments of 26 August 2005 came to 30,869,054 dollars in disgorgement, interest and civil penalties.

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The Postmortem

▪️ HealthSouth's Accountants Called Their Own Meetings "Family Meetings" by 1997.

Sep 3, 2026

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▪️ HealthSouth's Accountants Called Their Own Meetings "Family Meetings" by 1997.

Senior staff met each quarter to decide which entries would close the gap to the estimate.

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The Postmortem

▪️ A Senator Wrote One Letter. Depositors Pulled $1.55 Billion.

Sep 2, 2026

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▪️ A Senator Wrote One Letter. Depositors Pulled $1.55 Billion.

The run began the morning after the letter and ran until the regulator closed the doors.

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The Postmortem

▪️ Continental Illinois Lost Thirty Percent of Its Funding in Ten Days.

Aug 31, 2026

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▪️ Continental Illinois Lost Thirty Percent of Its Funding in Ten Days.

Its core deposits had fallen under twenty percent, and the money that replaced them could leave overnight.

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Weekly Review

▪️ The Fed Chairman Said It Out Loud at Jackson Hole on Friday.

Aug 30, 2026

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▪️ The Fed Chairman Said It Out Loud at Jackson Hole on Friday.

His hundredth day in the job, and he chose to talk about prices rather than growth.

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Weekly Review

▪️ The Treasury Made an Announcement Wednesday. Gold Noticed Immediately.

Aug 23, 2026

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▪️ The Treasury Made an Announcement Wednesday. Gold Noticed Immediately.

Wednesday alone carried a 4.15 percent move, the largest single session of the summer so far.

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Weekly Review

▪️ Eight Ships Crossed Hormuz in a Day. Before the War It Was 130.

Aug 16, 2026

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▪️ Eight Ships Crossed Hormuz in a Day. Before the War It Was 130.

Americans spent $763.6 billion in July, and equities finished the week almost exactly where they started.

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Weekly Review

▪️ The Fed's Case for September Just Weakened. Gold Moved First.

Aug 9, 2026

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▪️ The Fed's Case for September Just Weakened. Gold Moved First.

The labour force shrank by 264,000, which is the only reason the rate could fall at all.

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Weekly Review

▪️ Inflation Has Been Above Target for Five Years. The Fed Just Blinked Twice.

Aug 2, 2026

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▪️ Inflation Has Been Above Target for Five Years. The Fed Just Blinked Twice.

The gap between two giants reporting in the same week is the real story of this earnings season.

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Weekly Review

▪️ Lockheed's Order Book Hit $230 Billion. That Says More Than Any Forecast.

Jul 26, 2026

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▪️ Lockheed's Order Book Hit $230 Billion. That Says More Than Any Forecast.

Traffic through the strait has collapsed to a fraction of pre-war levels, and every cargo still has to move somehow.

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Weekly Review

▪️ Tesla and Alphabet Report This Week. The Chip Market Already Voted.

Jul 19, 2026

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▪️ Tesla and Alphabet Report This Week. The Chip Market Already Voted.

Nvidia fell 3.86% and Micron 13.31% before a single earnings call. Capital spending guidance lands this week.

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Weekly Review

▪️ The Dollar Hit a 13-Month High. Your Whole Portfolio Just Repriced.

Jun 28, 2026

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▪️ The Dollar Hit a 13-Month High. Your Whole Portfolio Just Repriced.

A move this big in the dollar resets the price of gold, stocks, and everything you hold.

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Weekly Review

▪️ Inflation Just Broke 4%. Markets Still Rallied on the SpaceX Debut.

Jun 16, 2026

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▪️ Inflation Just Broke 4%. Markets Still Rallied on the SpaceX Debut.

SpaceX opened at $150, closed at $161, raised $75 billion. The largest IPO in history landed at a $2.1 trillion market cap.

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Weekly Review

▪️ The Nasdaq Just Had Its Worst Day Since April 2025. The CPI Drops Tomorrow.

Jun 9, 2026

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▪️ The Nasdaq Just Had Its Worst Day Since April 2025. The CPI Drops Tomorrow.

May payrolls hit 172,000 against an 80,000 forecast. The S&P closed its first losing week in ten. CPI prints Wednesday.

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Weekly Review

▪️ Dell Jumped 33% on AI Hardware. Then Came the Inflation Print.

Jun 2, 2026

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▪️ Dell Jumped 33% on AI Hardware. Then Came the Inflation Print.

Stocks closed May with the longest weekly winning streak since 2023. Gold's floor strengthened in parallel.

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Weekly Review

▪️ SpaceX Confirms a $1.75 Trillion Float. The Last Time This Happened Was 1999.

May 26, 2026

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▪️ SpaceX Confirms a $1.75 Trillion Float. The Last Time This Happened Was 1999.

Nvidia delivered, the Dow set records, and the Fed minutes pointed to a policy shift. The next move belongs to Warsh.

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Weekly Review

▪️ The 10-Year Yield Hit a One-Year High. Nvidia Reports in 72 Hours.

May 18, 2026

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▪️ The 10-Year Yield Hit a One-Year High. Nvidia Reports in 72 Hours.

The longest winning streak since 2024 ended. Treasury yields broke 5% on the long end. Warsh inherits a fragile tape.

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Weekly Review

▪️ Michael Burry Just Compared This Tape to March 2000. CPI Drops Tomorrow.

May 11, 2026

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▪️ Michael Burry Just Compared This Tape to March 2000. CPI Drops Tomorrow.

The "Big Short" investor warned this week the AI rally resembles the final stages of the dot-com bubble. Tomorrow's CPI print is the next stress test.

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Weekly Review

▪️ Nvidia and Alphabet Now $300B Apart. Friday Could Decide the Throne.

May 4, 2026

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▪️ Nvidia and Alphabet Now $300B Apart. Friday Could Decide the Throne.

Powell's last hand-off comes May 15. Friday's payrolls and the CPI print on the 12th set the tone for what Warsh inherits.

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Weekly Review

▪️ Trump Just Ordered the Navy to Shoot Mine-Layers in the Strait of Hormuz

Apr 27, 2026

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▪️ Trump Just Ordered the Navy to Shoot Mine-Layers in the Strait of Hormuz

Stocks hit new highs while the war in the Strait quietly intensified. The Fed meeting now sits at the center of everything.

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