$JPM
6 long-form articles and 8 pre-market mentions covering $JPM from AskMelon Research.
Chime's Free Banking Runs on a Loophole, Not a Moat
One year ago today, Chime went public — the largest neobank in America, more than ten million members, a feel-good story about giving fee-free banking to the working-class customers the big banks igno…
Loosening the Bolts
America's six biggest banks have added six hundred billion dollars of market value in a single year, vaulting their combined worth past two-and-a-third trillion dollars, and the engine of the rally is…
Insurance on the Future
The same Wall Street banks underwriting the trillion-dollar AI debt boom are now quietly building and selling the instruments to bet against it. Trading in insurance on hyperscaler debt is up tenfold …
The Stagecoach That Lost Its Way
A meditation on Wells Fargo's 165-year-old iconography, the 3.5 million fake accounts that quietly drained it, and the curious economics of a brand worth more than the company that earned it.
The Nobel Laureates Who Almost Took Down Wall Street
A meditation on Long-Term Capital Management's 1998 collapse, the trillion-dollar leveraged book on a four-billion-dollar equity base, and the rehearsal for 2008.
The Synthetic CDO That Was Designed to Fail
A meditation on the 2010 Abacus settlement, the structuring conflict of interest the SEC made an example of, and the structural issue underneath that the settlement did not resolve.
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
The US Naval blockade of Iranian ports, announced for 4 PM ET today, converts the week's dominant geopolitical narrative from "Hormuz closure declaration" to "enforced blockade with legal and commerci…
Sunday, July 12, 2026
The Strait of Hormuz has been formally declared closed for the second time in 2026: Iran's IRGC Navy announced Sunday that the waterway is shut after US Central Command completed its third wave of pre…
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Q3's first session opens with the market's most-crowded H1 trade — the memory/semiconductor super-cycle — in profit-taking mode, two consecutive soft US data prints, and a Fed Chair who refused to giv…
Sunday, June 28, 2026
The 60-day Iran road map that was supposed to deliver a final deal by August 16 survived exactly nine days before the Strait of Hormuz became a shooting gallery again: Iran launched four one-way attac…
Thursday, April 16, 2026
Verdict: VERIFIED
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Nine straight sessions green. S&P 500 within 1% of its all-time high. The tape is begging for a reason to pause -- but earnings keep delivering.
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
The blockade is on. But Iran called. The tape just flipped.
Monday, April 13, 2026
The blockade is real. The damage is priced. Now what?