The Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast had a terrific month and is ranked 1st this week in the Apple Business News rankings.

We did two X polls the last two days and recorded podcasts around them. The first deals with people who say I’m just “doing this to give back” and whether you take that at its world or with skepticism. The next one deals with “all I want is carbs” and

The big US EV stocks — Tesla is down 30% year to date, Lucid Motors is down 16% year to date and Rivian is up nearly 3% year to date.

Bank of America is down 8.6% year to date and J.P. Morgan is up 3% year to date.

Apollo Global Management, Inc. reported solid earnings mostly via fee income but few exits and remains down 16% year to date.

Microsoft jumped 7.6% yesterday and now has a market cap that is back to $3.16 trillion. Apple is down 3% pre market and 14% year to date and opens the day with a market cap of $3.2 trillion slightly above Microsoft. Astera Labs is the biggest single loser in our

Eli Lilly and Company dropped 11.66% yesterday as Novo Nordisk a key competitor signed a deal with CVS Health.

The Coca-Cola Company which had been seemingly outperforming PepsiCo threw a wrench into that thinking and dropped 12% yesterday. It’s now down 5% year to date. The company is a Berkshire Hathaway staple.

The markets rose yesterday and futures point mildly up this am. The S&P 500 rose .63%. The S&P 500 is now down around 4.5% year to date after a year that started horribly. It could be a lot worse.

25 Quick Business Mantras, Concepts and Thoughts 1. Change it, leave it or accept it. Said a different way – Double down, stay the course or abandon the effort. 2. More meditation, more calm and less coffee. I’m a C- here. This is clearly aspirational. 3. Don’t let the old

When I get to the third or fourth day of a conference, I have had way too much coffee and just want to break down and eat carbs.

Question: When someone says to you – I do what I do to pay it forward and to give back. Do you… Take them at their word – 26% Think they are full of bs – 19% Look at them strangely – 7% Take it with a grain of sale

M&A Activity Down in Q1 Due to Uncertainty.  “M&A is like a barometer of business confidence, and people are feeling uncertain and the changes are very hard for boardrooms to work out,” Lucinda Guthrie, head of data provider Mergermarket, told Yahoo Finance last week.  “A number of processes have been

The markets rose yesterday but futures point down early today. Hertz dropped 13% yesterday as it announced plans to again tap the debt market. It already has $6 billion in debt and is going to tap the markets for another $500 million. The company issued $500 million in high yield

Hims & Hers Jumps 23% on Novo Nordisk Deal.  Hims & Hers signed a deal for distribution with Novo Nordisk. Novo Nordisk has fallen behind Eli Lilly and Company. “The Danish drugmaker is expanding Wegovy access via telehealth providers like Hims and Ro. But the gap with Eli Lilly is