3 entries tagged michael saylor. All writing.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2026 The Committee That Won't Say Its Own Name A policy paper published today calls index providers "Wall Street's invisible committee." I went and found the actual committees — six unnamed people at MSCI who can decide whether Bitcoin counts as an operating asset, a board at FTSE Russell that is contractually forbidden from naming its own members, and the one index manager anyone actually knows by name, only because the SEC caught him trading on what he knew. Feedback on the live MSCI proposal closes today. The decision lands October 16. SEPTEMBER 25, 2026 Three Cents a Day, Sundays Included Strategy wants to pay dividends on all four of its U.S. preferred stocks every single day, weekends included, starting with STRC on November 1. My first reaction was that this could change everything. Then I did the arithmetic. The amount of money doesn't change at all; the shape of it does. The part that could actually matter is sitting in reason number five of the proxy. SEPTEMBER 22, 2026 Seventeen Billion Reasons They're Still Not In Strategy bought bitcoin again last week, bought back its own preferred stock, and got snubbed by the S&P 500 for the fourth time running — this time for a very specific, very quotable reason: a $17.44 billion unrealized loss that the same accounting rule which handed the company a $10 billion GAAP profit last year just as easily handed it a $8.2 billion GAAP loss this year. I went and checked all four numbers.