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  November 24, 2025 - The biggest bull versus bear debate in years is playing out in the capital markets over the frenzied level of AI data center capital expenditures, and whether such spending will prove justified via an adequate return on capital. The bulls believe that the…

November 8, 2025 – AlphaRank Factor Performance represents the daily historical performance of Accelerate’s proprietary model factor portfolios. (more…)

November 2, 2025 - To a casual sports fan, watching the World Series was an informative experience. While it is fun to hear about the dynamics between the various positions and the resulting strategic decisions, some of the archaic rules in baseball can be a bit…

  October 20, 2025 - In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, fraudulent and highly speculative brokerage operations called bucket shops flourished. These bucket shops enabled customers to make highly leveraged bets on stock or commodity price movements. While bucket shops appeared as legitimate brokerage firms, with…

October 4, 2025 – AlphaRank Factor Performance represents the daily historical performance of Accelerate’s proprietary model factor portfolios. (more…)

  October 1, 2025 - "October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February," Mark Twain wrote in his 1894 novel Pudd'nhead Wilson. To the best of my knowledge, Twain…

  September 28, 2025 - "If you can walk, you can do a SPAC," exclaimed Billionaire investor Barry Sternlicht on CNBC. "The market is a little bit crazy." His glib comments were made in March 2021, right near the peak of the frenzy in Special Purpose Acquisition Companies. Ironically, Sternlicht…

  September 20, 2025 - The critically acclaimed TV series The Last of Us tells a story about a post-apocalyptic world in which the human race is brought to the brink of extinction by a horrifying pandemic. In the show, a mutated Cordyceps fungus evolves to infect humans after a…

September 6, 2025 - "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," goes the famous opening line of Charles Dickens' classic 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities. The tale unfolds in London and Paris during the late 18th century, contrasting the relative stability…

September 6, 2025 – AlphaRank Factor Performance represents the daily historical performance of Accelerate’s proprietary model factor portfolios. (more…)