For 22 minutes, we had a mini sun on our planet.

We had a capsule that was 10 times hotter than the core of the sun and three times denser than the core of the site was stable for 22 minutes.

So for 22 minutes, we had a mini sun on our planet.

This is the idea of fusion.

Hello and welcome to the Barron Streetwise podcast. I'm Jack Howe and the voice you just heard,

that's Heim Israel. He's the head of thematic investing at B of A research. And did he just say

we had a mini sun on our planet for a while for 22 minutes. I feel like that's something I should have

heard about. I feel like maybe I missed an email on that one. We're going to talk about it and about

the future of nuclear power. We'll also talk about the president's recent suggestion to switch

from quarterly financial reporting for public companies to semi-annual reporting.

That topic is not quite ten times as hot as the core of the sun, maybe two or three times.

Listening in is our audio producer Alexis Moore. Hi, Lexus.

Hey, Jack. Are you team quarterly or semi-annual? Have you, um, have you chosen yet?

Um, your friends are going to be arguing about this. It's important to take sides now. And you got to start lining up your arguments.

I'm reporting agnostic, so maybe you can help me out.

Yeah.

Well, I did write for Barron's a recent guide to arguing over the frequency of company reporting.

So you're in luck.

I will tell you up front that I think the stakes on this one are pretty low.

For background, President Trump posted on Truth Social, that's his

media site. He said that permitting publicly traded U.S. companies to report financial results

every six months instead of quarterly will, quote, save money and allow managers to focus on

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