Stop Bleeding Wealth: The Shocking Truth About Relentless Quality Investing
Quality investing and ValueAligned investing are the same discipline: own world-class businesses, buy with a margin of safety, and hold. Why you can do it.
“3” Reasons Why Human Ingenuity Is More Valuable Than All the “Rare Earths” on Earth
Rice University’s flash Joule heating converts garbage to graphene in 10 milliseconds at 3,000°C—costing just $125 per ton in electricity ( Rice University News). Graphene is 200 times stronger than steel, a property verified by Columbia University research that measured its tensile strength at AI is becoming like the internet: too embedded to break out. […]
The Hidden Retirement Trap: How Your Spending Creates All the Risk
The order of your returns decides whether a 30-year retirement survives, not the average. Why spending, not the market, creates most of the risk.
Bill Ackman vs. Chris Hohn: Inside the $10B Microsoft Stock Trade
In the same quarter, Bill Ackman built a $2.1 billion Microsoft position, and Chris Hohn’s TCI sold $8 billion. Same business. Opposite trades. The fact pattern that decides which one is right is sitting in plain sight in Microsoft’s filings. Here is the math, the misread, and the framework you can copy. TL;DR Two billionaires […]
Stocks Just Had Their Worst Week in a Year. The Companies? Still Fine.
Weekly Market & ValueAligned Portfolio Review — trading week of June 1–5, 2026 The short version The S&P 500 — a list of 500 of the biggest U.S. companies — fell 2.6% last week. Tech stocks fell harder, down 5.6%. Almost all the selling hit the biggest tech and AI names. The average stock barely […]
The week the S&P 500 stayed quiet while everything else got loud
TL;DR Oil jumped almost 12% after fighting near Iran shut down a key shipping lane, and U.S. crude closed at $105.90 a barrel. Prices for shoppers rose to 3.8% over the past year, the hottest reading since May 2023. The Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as the new Federal Reserve Chair by a 54 to 45 […]
How AMD Made $120 Billion in AI Deals — Explained in Plain English
What this post is about AMD makes computer chips. Two years ago, most people knew them for the chips inside gaming PCs and regular business computers. In the last 12 months, they signed deals worth more than $120 billion to make AI chips for the world’s largest AI companies. This post explains what changed, why […]
Amazon (AMZN) Q1 2026 Earnings: Why a 95% Free Cash Flow Drop is Actually Bullish
Why the cash collapse is not the story, the backlog is — and what investors are really being asked to underwrite. TL;DR Trailing twelve-month free cash flow fell 95% to $1.2 billion while Amazon spent $43.2 billion on capex in a single quarter. AWS revenue grew 28% to $37.6 billion — its fastest pace in […]
Alphabet (GOOGL) Q1 2026 Earnings: 5 Surprising Truths Behind the $500B AI Pivot
How Q1 FY2026 turned Google from a search-ad cash machine into the world’s most capital-hungry AI infrastructure builder — and why the headline net income hides the real story. By David Berkowitz · Berk on Value · Published April 30, 2026 TL;DR Alphabet reported Q1 FY2026 revenue of $109.9 billion, up 22% year-over-year — a […]
S&P 500 Hits 7,165: Why 5 VAP Earnings Beat Got Sold Off Anyway
Week ending Friday, April 25, 2026 | Berk on Value | VAP Wealth Advisors TL;DR Five VAP holdings reported earnings this week. All five beat. Three got hammered anyway. The headline S&P 500 record close at 7,165 hides what is actually moving the tape. Intel printed a blowout Q1 , with Data Center & AI […]
