Sam Perera

Friday Finance

Billionaires fund shows about themselves, the vague Iran deal, cocaine boom, Guinness outperforms and the $30B in smuggled gold

35th Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 35th Edition of Friday Finance, Let me start by saying what a win for Canada yesterday, the city is still buzzing. A man in Chennai, India now has a memecoin ticker tattooed across his forehead, and he is not getting

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North Korea is booming, Longevity as an asset class, 3 IPO's want $200B, Swiss population cap and $43K seats for the Knicks

34th Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 34th Edition of Friday Finance, This week the Trump family began selling UFC commemorative coins priced from $249.99 to $11,999.99, timed to a championship fight on the White House South Lawn this Sunday, which is both Flag

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Curry picks Li-Ning, DeepSeek Vs American AI, Super El Nino, $570B in Classic Cars, European Pension Structure is Flawed

33rd Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 33rd Edition of Friday Finance, Last Saturday a 16-year-old boarded United flight 236 from Newark to Palma de Mallorca and named his Bluetooth speaker “BOMB”. About 90 minutes into the transatlantic crossing, another passenger spotted it in their

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Economics of morality, Flip Flop Mafia, Saudi Arabia retreating from Sports, Pan Am is a hotel brand and the $4.25M deli platter

32nd Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 32ND Edition of Friday Finance, Trump’s financial disclosure dropped this month and it shows roughly 3,700 trades in Q1 2026, about 40 per day. Among the 36 largest positions, each between $1 million and $5 million: Nvidia, Apple,

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Coal explains AI spend, Blackberry is in 275M cars, IRS 'settles' with Trump, SpaceX is ready for launch and get ready for the Enhanced Games

31st Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 31st Edition of Friday Finance, Earlier this year, xAI asked its own employees to submit personal US tax returns as training data for Grok. The incentive was $420 per submission (can’t make this up). The offer was extended to

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Shadow Fleets exposed, jet fuel made from the sun, Hermes and his gardener, AP sells a $400 watch to flex

30th edition Greetings folks and warm welcome to the 30th Edition, Two Miami-Dade sheriff's sergeants are suing Ben Affleck and Matt Damon for $21M they did not steal. In June 2016, Jason Smith and Jonathan Santana led the raid on a Miami Lakes house where they found

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GameStop tries to buy eBay, FIFA's fans may not show up, Economic warfare targeted at Iran, Every $1 of good data = $25 of benefit, Labubu bubble is here

29th edition Greetings folks, and warm welcome to Edition No 29, On Wednesday morning at Jogye Temple in central Seoul, a 130-centimeter humanoid robot wearing Buddhist robes pressed its palms together, bowed to senior monks, and was ordained as a lay Buddhist follower under the dharma name "Gabi.

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The magnificent 1, European CRE outlook, Canada to host a defence bank, Russia didn't cash in and $500 shoe designed to be used one

28th edition Greetings folks and welcome to Edition No 28 Two months ago Trump's Gold Card visa was projected to raise $1 trillion and help balance the budget. A year before that, Trump said it would generate $50 trillion. Last December, Howard Lutnick stood next to the president

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The largest museum you can't visit, Tariff refunds increasing margins, Gaza privatized, Polymarkets turning up the heat, 100% loan to cost loans for FIFA tickets

27th edition Greetings folks, Feel like the days are getting longer? It’s not just spring. China’s Three Gorges Dam is so massive it actually slows the rotation of the Earth. NASA scientist Dr. Benjamin Fong Chao calculated that when the reservoir is full, it increases the length of

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Sotheby's wants to keep your money, COVID costs 1% of GDP, The Strait is open-ish, Dishwashers in demand, Costco dominates Japan.

26th edition Greetings folks, The United States holds 8,133 tonnes of gold. At this week’s price of roughly $4,750 per ounce, that stash is worth approximately $1.24 trillion. The US government carries it on the Federal Reserve’s books at $42.22 per ounce, which values

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Covert rescue of Dude 44, McDonald's priced as a luxury item, Dead people solving China's condo glut, Delta Airlines refining their way to profit and France sells gold to itself

25th edition Greetings folks, Kim Kardashian and Lewis Hamilton confirmed their relationship this week. Between her $4 billion SKIMS valuation and his $300 million Ferrari contract, this might be the first couple whose combined portfolio outperforms most private credit funds this year. Ferrari shares were up 2% on the news,

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Lessons from the fall of the Roman Empire, Apple's Secret (its in the wrist), Its not just oil, $25B Platform with no banking and the KitKat heist.

24th edition Greetings folks (yes I know it’s not Friday), On March 26, Donald Trump became the first sitting US president in 165 years to put his signature on American currency. The new bills will replace the Treasurer’s signature with the President’s, starting with $100 notes in