The SpaceX IPO, the Magnificent Ten, and What's Quietly Breaking Underneath the Market

This quarter's Scholar Big Picture conversation runs the full episode. Deon Strickland, financial advisor at Scholar Advising, in-house economist, and finance professor at Wake Forest University, joins Stephan to work through the most consequential shift in public markets right now: the SpaceX IPO and what its $2.5 trillion valuation says about how investors are pricing the tail scenarios on AI. From there the conversation moves into the concentration problem underneath the headlines, with the Magnificent Ten approaching forty percent of the S&P 500 and Anthropic and OpenAI likely to add another four to five trillion dollars in market cap to that same narrow window. They close on what it means to build a portfolio for clients who have not felt real market pain in nearly two decades, why bonds and gold are starting to look more like insurance than drag, and what Deon is watching as a new Fed chair takes over heading into the next inflation print.

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