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Since 2021, hundreds of texts have crossed markets, energy, Europe, technology, war, money, climate, artificial intelligence and culture with one recurring question: cui prodest? It is not a pose. It is method.

Here the official narrative is neither accepted nor rejected on principle: it is interrogated. A chart can tell the truth and hide the essential. A statement can be accurate and still serve an interest. A crisis can be narrated as an emergency while it transfers power, capital and responsibility from one side of the table to the other.

That is why Taleb can sit beside an epistle in Latin, the ETS beside European deindustrialisation, AI beside chips, the Fed beside geopolitics. The subjects change; the inquiry does not.

Who gains? Who pays? Who decides? Who tells the story? And what is missing from the version everyone repeats?

This is not a feed of bulletins. It is a library of analysis, methodical suspicion and long memory. Browse it. Then judge for yourself.

29 publications · category radar-finbear-en · year 2026 · reset
RADAR Week AheadThe bill for intelligence: tech is falling, and on Wednesday Meta and Tesla show who paysThe Nasdaq-100 is coming off its worst week since April 2025 and semiconductors are 24% below their June peak: the crack runs...19 Oct 2026RADAR PRO ELITE™ FINBEARProducer prices hit their highest since 2022, yet yields fall: Wall Street sells the chips and buys the restSeptember producer prices rose 1.3% on the month and 6.3% on the year, the fastest pace since 2022, driven by energy; retail...16 Oct 2026RADAR FINBEARGoldman bets on earnings (+25%), but the S&P 500 has a 0.15% cushion: exam week starts with the banksGoldman Sachs has moved global equities to overweight, betting on third-quarter earnings expected to grow 25%. But the S&P 500 closed just...12 Oct 2026RADAR FINBEARAnthropic eyes a $2 trillion-plus IPO: eighty pages of warnings and $518 billion in commitments that put its partners firstAnthropic's IPO prospectus, reviewed by Reuters, lists risks up to "existential" ones and targets a valuation above $2 trillion. Yahoo Finance says...30 Sep 2026RADAR FINBEARNvidia authorizes $150 billion in buybacks as chips slide: the pick-and-shovel seller is now lending to the minersNvidia is adding $150 billion to its share repurchase program on the day the rest of the chip sector slid on fears...29 Sep 2026RADAR FINBEARRecord Broadcom Sold, Bitcoin Eyeing 60,000: The Market Now Grades Expectations, Not FactsThe day the beat stopped being enough: Broadcom delivers the strongest quarter in its history — AI revenue at $10.8 billion (+143%),...4 Jun 2026RADAR FINBEARHormuz Sealed, AI in Orbit, Main Street on Its KneesTen stories, three tectonic fault lines: the Iran-USA war with Hormuz shut and the ceasefire expiring April 21, an unprecedented AI acceleration...15 Apr 2026RADAR FINBEARHormuz shut again, TSMC +35%, Anthropic Mythos — the market lives in controlled dissociationThe US-Iran ceasefire lasted less than a single trading session. The IRGC shut Hormuz again, Saudi Arabia lost 600,000 barrels per day,...10 Apr 2026RADAR FINBEARThe Rally That Lasted a Day: Ceasefire Collapses, Oil Whipsaws, and Markets Discover the Fine PrintWall Street staged the biggest rally of the year on a US-Iran ceasefire that lasted twelve hours. WTI crashed 16.4% — worst...9 Apr 2026RADAR FINBEARCeasefire and Oil Crash: The Market Buys Peace with an Expiry DateThe US-Iran ceasefire reopens Hormuz and triggers oil's worst crash since 1991. Global equity surges, Samsung posts a record $38B quarterly profit...8 Apr 2026RADAR FINBEARWar “nearly over” but the market sells everything: BofA declares stagflation, gold in forced liquidationTrump declares the Iran war "nearly over" but promises devastating strikes. BofA formalizes "mild stagflation" with oil at $100 all year. Gold...2 Apr 2026RADAR FINBEARTwelve Promises of Peace, $4 Gasoline: the Bill of War Arrives at the PumpTrump opens to peace without Hormuz, but a drone strikes Dubai. US gasoline at $4, EU inflation at 2.5%, gold worst month...31 Mar 2026

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