Rule changes for the SpaceX $SPCX IPO:
Index providers waived the profitability requirement and cut the seasoning window from 90 days to 5.
This forces over $30 trillion in passive 401k and retirement money to buy SpaceX at IPO valuations.
Bloomberg Intelligence estimates S&P 500 funds must absorb 19% of SpaceX's float within 6 months.
Russell 1000 and Nasdaq 100 funds will absorb 24%.
The rules built to protect passive investors:
1. S&P 500 has required 12 months of trading and 4 quarters of GAAP profitability since 2002. Both waived.
2. Nasdaq cut its inclusion window from 90 trading days to 15.
3. FTSE Russell cut its to 5.
All three benchmarks are now structured to buy SpaceX at IPO pricing.
BREAKING: Micron stock, $MU, officially hits $1 trillion in market cap for the first time in history.
12 months ago, this stock was worth just $70 billion.
The SpaceX IPO is the most brazen retail fleecing in modern market history.
NASDAQ has REWRITTEN the index rules specifically for this listing. The 10% minimum free float requirement: gone. The 3 to 12 month seasoning period before index inclusion: cut to 15 trading days. Companies with small floats can now be weighted at 3x their actual float.
Translation: every passive index fund, every 401k, every pension is about to be force-fed SPCX whether they want it or not.
And what exactly are they buying?
Class A shares carrying ONE vote each, while Musk holds 93.6% of the Class B super voting shares at TEN votes each. That gives him 85.1% of voting power on a 42% economic interest. He cannot be outvoted. He cannot be removed. CEO, CTO and board chairman simultaneously.
For reference: Zuckerberg controls 61% of Meta. Buffett 35% of Berkshire. Musk: 85.1%.
SpaceX is also claiming "controlled company" status, exempting it from needing a majority of independent directors. Shareholders waive the right to a jury trial. They waive the right to class actions. Mandatory arbitration only, courtesy of an SEC rule change pushed through on a party line vote last September.
$1.75 trillion valuation. $80 billion raise. Largest IPO in history.
The rules of the game were quietly rewritten so one man could extract maximum capital from retail while answering to no one.
🚨🇺🇸 The man who fired on the White House today was already on the Secret Service's radar, having tried to access the grounds before.
He drew a weapon at a checkpoint and shot at officers. They returned fire.
He's dead.
Trump was inside, unaffected.
@SecScottBessent@USTreasury TRANSLATION:
“I said BUY US bonds, not SELL US bonds.
OK.
Iran and Russia, you get sanctions relief.
We can’t refinance our debt at these rates.
GCC, FX swap line, anybody?
Anybody?
Big Oil needs the strait to stay closed while we ink those LNG sales to Europe.
Help!”
BREAKING: 🔴
U.S. President Donald Trump: "I have instructed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, The Chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Daniel Caine, and The United States Military, that we will NOT be doing the scheduled attack of Iran tomorrow, but have further instructed them to be prepared to go forward with a full, large scale assault of Iran, on a moment’s notice, in the event that an acceptable Deal is not reached. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP."
If I were Trump and about to announce a deal with Iran, I’d time it alongside the SpaceX and OpenAI IPOs.
If I were Goldman Sachs, I’d want to collect my fees at the highest valuation possible.
This is the biggest bubble since the 1999 dot-com era.
Bond yields are at levels last seen in 2007, pushing mortgage rates to unsustainable levels.
I think they can pump this bubble much further by timing the announcement of a deal with Iran.
Don’t get me wrong.
This bubble still has a long way to go.
But it is a bubble, and China knows how to pop it if they want to.
There’s also a massive money print waiting on the other side of this bubble.
This will be the largest wealth transfer in modern history.
And the financial-industrial complex knows it.
If you don’t own assets, you only experience the higher energy prices.
The K-shaped economy is pushing both sides to their extremes.
Timing this market is not going to be easy, but the FIC wins and Main Street looses.
By design.
TRANSLATION:
Big Energy and OPEC need more time to keep the strait closed while oil and LNG executives close more deals, and the WEF gets its manufactured inflation, recession, and distressed-asset-stripping crisis.
Once we’re done, we’ll announce the deal we already agreed to.
In the meantime, you deal with the inflation.
You will own nothing and be happy.
“Draining the swamp” meant draining the global middle class that doesn’t own the appreciating assets.
Meanwhile, you get distracted with left-versus-right politics, capitalism vs. communism, manufactured immigration, and fake wars on terror while we price you out of the markets.
You can pretend elections matter while the financial-industrial complex sets the policy and tells you when the strait will reopen through our insurers.
Go distract yourself at a Tommy Robinson rally and vent some frustration there.
It will make no difference, and we’ll use it to build your social credit score, pre-crime social media arrest data, and digital ID profile.
Theatre.
Trump explains why the US has attacked Iran without provocation, sending the global economy into crisis:
"We're doing it to help Israel" and the Gulf dictatorships