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📉 The Market Lost Its Mind (Again)
Pip Munch
November 24, 2025
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On today’s menu:
📉 Markets Whiplash, CPI Hides, Google Climbs
😬 Is Michael Saylor In Trouble?
💰️ Palantir’s CEO Just Sold
💣️ These Major Stocks Have Crashed How Much?
💀 Trump Shuts Down DOGE
Friday’s numbers:
S&P 500 | 6,602 | +0.98% |
Nasdaq | 22,273 | +0.88% |
Dow Jones | 46,245 | +1.08% |
Bitcoin | $83,775 | -1.55% |
BREAKING NEWS
📉 The Market Lost Its Mind (Again)
Last week was the most volatile week since April — and Friday was the final boss.
The S&P 500 closed up 1%, but that barely tells the story.
At one point, the index swung $800 billion in market cap in 50 minutes with zero headlines, zero catalysts, and zero logic.
So, what’s going on?
Everyone is trading raw emotion. The “AI is a bubble” crowd flips to “AI is the future” in the span of a lunch break. Market-wide moves are literally mechanical sentiment swings.
Even Bitcoin wasn’t safe — it was down 6% at one point before clawing back.
Why Markets Care
Sentiment >>> Fundamentals right now.
This kind of whipsaw punishes both bulls and bears — unless you scalp like a caffeinated squirrel.
Risk assets (BTC, tech) remain hypersensitive to emotional flows.
The Munch Take
We expect more of this.
This is the phase of the cycle where you don’t “predict” — you survive. Tight stops, smaller size, faster exits. And maybe a stress nap.
🎁 CPI Is Now a Mystery Box
The Bureau of Labor Statistics canceled the October CPI release entirely.
Why? The shutdown made it “impossible” for them to retroactively collect the data.
But the bigger shock:
November CPI — originally scheduled for Dec. 10 — will now be released on Dec. 18.
That’s after the Fed’s December 10 meeting.
So Powell goes into one of the most important decisions of the year… blindfolded.
Why Markets Care
No CPI means the Fed must make a rate decision without fresh inflation data.
Traders will be flying on sentiment rather than hard numbers.
Bond and currency markets could whipsaw as people guess the Fed’s blind move.
The Munch Take
If the Fed cuts without CPI? Risk-on chaos.
If Powell freezes because he’s “in the fog”? Risk-off dump.
Either way: volatility is guaranteed. Get your popcorn.
🥉 Google Just Became the #3 Giant
Google is now the third most valuable company in the world, behind only Apple and Nvidia.
Nvidia: $4.347T
Apple: $4.029T
Google: $3.617T
The stock ripped 3.33% on the day.
Also worth repeating:
Buffett bought Google, and it's reportedly now his 10th largest holding.
The stock is up 58% YTD, absolutely demolishing the S&P 500’s 12.5% return.
Why Markets Care
Mega-cap flows dominate everything right now.
When Google climbs the ladder, it drags indexes, ETFs, and risk appetite with it.
The Munch Take
Follow the money.
If Buffett — a man who still uses a flip phone — is buying Google, the rest of us should at least be paying attention.
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BIG PICTURE
😬 Michael Saylor: Diamond Hands or Debt-Fueled Doom?
Here’s the deal: Michael Saylor has spent the last four years turning MicroStrategy into a one-asset casino. And the game is simple — raise money, buy Bitcoin, repeat.
What started as a fun little “let’s put our extra cash into BTC” experiment has turned into a full-blown corporate identity crisis where the company’s actual business is basically: Saylor buys Bitcoin and hopes it goes up.
And usually…it works. Until it doesn’t.
Bitcoin just flushed to a low of $80,500, which puts it only ~$6,000 above MicroStrategy’s average purchase price of $74,433. That means the entire mountain of Bitcoin Saylor stacked over the years — often at literal all-time highs — is now 8% away from going red.
For context: 46 days ago, MSTR’s BTC position was up 70%.
Today? The stock is down 70% from its record high and the leverage is starting to show its teeth.
Saylor always says Bitcoin is “digital Manhattan.” If you could go back to 1920, you’d buy as much Manhattan as humanly possible.
The problem? He didn’t just buy Manhattan — he borrowed heavily to do it.
And this is where things get real. Excessive leverage makes geniuses look reckless and makes downturns look fatal.
Is MSTR a once-in-a-decade opportunity right now? Maybe.
But as Buffett would say: this is outside our circle of competence.
If MicroStrategy can survive its debt load, the upside for brave buyers is massive. If not… well, let’s just say you don’t want to be holding the bag if the digital Manhattan foreclosure sign goes up.
MARKET OVERVIEW
🍿 Tasty Movers & Shakers
$BBY
Best Buy drops earnings Tuesday morning at 8:00 AM EST. Wall Street expects $9.57B in revenue… which is wild because I genuinely thought everyone just panic-buys their electronics on Amazon at 2 AM like I do. The stock is down 11% YTD.
$DELL
Dell also reports Tuesday, aiming for 11% YoY earnings growth. Solid number, mid energy. The stock is only up 5% YTD, which is basically the corporate equivalent of “I did my best.”
$HOOD
Robinhood got absolutely folded last week — down 12% as Bitcoin and AI stocks face-planted. November alone? -27% market value. At this rate their mascot should be crying into a 1099 form.
$PLTR
Palantir’s CEO unloaded 585,000 shares for $96M. Insider selling isn’t always bad… but it’s definitely not the vibe you want when the stock already looks puffier than my face does after Thanksgiving.
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