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I don't spend my time looking for the next 10% trade.
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Reading the filings. Understanding the debt. Studying the management and board. Figuring out what the market is missing — and what would prove the thesis wrong.
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Culture isn't separate from capital.
Culture creates demand.
Demand creates distribution.
Distribution creates economic leverage.
But the biggest question is who owns the infrastructure, rights and equity underneath it all.
That's the part I'm interested in understanding before everyone else does.
Rap-A-Lot turned 40 in 2026 as one of hip-hop's best-known independence stories.
On September 26, 1994, the Copyright Office recorded 2 documents from "Rap-a-Lot Records, Inc." to "Noo Trybe Records, Inc." The note on both: "Transfer of copyright." Both list all 12 songs on Scarface's debut, Mr. Scarface Is Back. The index doesn't show which rights they covered.
A 2003 registration's author line reads: "Rap-A-Lot Records, a division of Noo Trybe Records, Inc."
Scarface's 2021 termination notice gives those 12 songs a date of October 4, 2026. Whether anything moved, the public record doesn't show yet.
The Full Wingstop Investigation is here: youtu.be/zjSZjeRB1iM
Rick Ross’s family’s Wingstop operation is facing new scrutiny.
Investor Eric Jackson says Wingstop’s state filings listed 21 open restaurants under the family’s Boss Wings companies at the end of 2016, compared with just one in Clarksdale, Mississippi, at the end of 2025.
Jackson tracked 32 store numbers associated with those companies over time and says 28 are now listed under other franchisees.
I traced all 32 Wingstop store numbers ever listed under Rick Ross's family's Boss Wings companies in Wingstop's own state filings. End-2016: 21 open. End-2025: 1, in Clarksdale. 28 now listed under other franchisees. No price or reason appears in any filing.
Everyone will report that yields broke 5% today. Almost nobody will report what kind of rally it was: real yields did 80% of the work, breakevens fell with them, crypto fell 4% and vol spiked 16%. Relief rallies lift risk assets with bonds. Today's didn't. That's the growth-scare pattern, not the goldilocks pattern — and the difference is the whole positioning question. Follow @EventHorizonIQ for the daily read.
Yesterday's question, answered: the 10Y didn't hold 5.10% — it closed 4.967% with breakevens contained at 2.34%. The rally resumed through real yields, with equities and crypto selling off.
THE 10Y CLOSED BELOW 5% — THE SCARE KIND OF RALLY
RATE DNA — 2026-10-22 (closing prices)
THE TAPE (observed): the nominal 10Y fell 15.2bp to 4.967%. Real yields fell 12.3bp to 2.627% — about 80% of the move. Breakevens fell 2.9bp to 2.341%. 10s30s steepened 3.7bp — the belly led. And risk assets didn't celebrate: BTC −3.9%, ETH −4.3%, VIX 16.68 → 19.28.
THE READ (interpretation — plausible, not proven): this looks like a growth-scare rally, not a Goldilocks rally. A relief rally lifts risk assets with bonds; today's didn't. The bond market is pricing growth damage.
THE TRANSMISSION:
· Housing: OPEN responded +3.6% — one rate-sensitive name, not a cohort verdict. The 10Y fell 15.2bp; mortgage rates track the 10Y plus MBS spreads, and the latest mortgage-rate reading (2026-10-15) predates the move.
· Crypto: BTC and ETH fell on a real-yield rally — the expected relief transmission didn't appear today; a hypothesis under test, not an established channel.
WHAT CHANGES THE READ (monitoring thresholds, not calibrated invalidations): a close back above 5.12% (the prior close) reverses the break; a hold below 5.00% keeps it live. Whether risk assets recover alongside yields is what separates growth relief from renewed inflation pressure.
YESTERDAY'S TELL, ANSWERED ('does the 10Y hold below 5.09% with breakevens contained near 2.37% — or does the fall reverse?'): 10Y 4.967% — HELD BELOW 5.09% · breakevens 2.341% — contained · the fall extended through the close.
STATE: EASING (−3.048, growth-led mode — this morning's print; tomorrow's close recomputes).
THE LEAN (forecast — output published, edge not established): the model leans LOWER on the real 10Y through Nov 5. In backtests its LOWER leans were right 42% of the time against a 45% base rate — below its own benchmark — so the publication rule holds it back from a direction call. Live: 0 of 0 graded, 1 issued.
How the lean is graded: eventhorizoniq.com/sensors/r…
Follow @EventHorizonIQ for the daily read.
We may hold positions in instruments discussed. eventhorizoniq.com/disclosur…
In 2024, Jay-Z said it would be "selfish" to pick himself for the Super Bowl too early.
Now Puck reports he's picked himself for 2027.
But the bigger story isn't the halftime show.
It's how Jay-Z went from performer to gatekeeper of music's biggest stage — and what happens when the gatekeeper wants the stage.
I went back to the original tape and the documents. Here's what I found:
Should a gatekeeper be allowed to choose himself? Tell me where you land.
Are you not entertained by these Knicks and Sixers?!?!?
Give me this as the ECF Finals NOW!
And the Raptors are going to be good too! (But imagine if we had just KEPT OG?!)
Keeping all shareholders updated on the paper trading performance of @EMJXai as promised:
Since 2/11 inception through today: +54.9%
BTC since then: +23.9%
MSTR and BMNR since then: +15.5%
EMJX CAGR: +88.5%
Our max drawdown over that period -11.3%
Our Sharpe: 1.95
Upside capture vs. BTC: 16%
Downside capture vs. BTC: -16%
Numbers are numbers.
We moved back into a BTC BULL market from MIXED last Thursday with BTC at $81,269.
The Army knew about the fire. Then the wind changed.
Four soldiers died at CFB Wainwright.
Environment Canada wrote the turn down at 5 a.m.— hashed records prove it. The internal memo called the change "unexpected."
Asked on TV whether training should have proceeded, the CDS deferred to the investigations.
The full @EventHorizonIQ Research investigation:
3 things on that form were true on August 3, 2015.
No copyrights, because the music sat in a company. No claims, because the claim hadn't ripened. $2.7M for the label, because the market that would later pay 30x hadn't been built.
All 3 correct. None of them stayed correct.
9 Drake albums at the Copyright Office. The author of the recordings on every one: the label, "employer for hire." On the songs, Drake is an author. That gap is the whole fight over whether his masters can ever come back.
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