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You have money to invest. You open the app, look at the chart, and see a line that has gone almost straight up. The S&P 500 closed at 7,652.86 on 24 August 2026, a rounding error away from its own record. Some part of your brain
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Washington borrowed its way past a round number this week, and the bill arrived in European bond markets. Plus: what one quarter of AI spending actually costs a shareholder.
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Record borrowing is fuelling the market, the AI boom is quietly financing itself, and a struck-down tariff bill is now trading at a discount. Three numbers, and what they mean for your money
Ruffling feathers in personal finance, business, and everything in between
My parents never bought a stock. School taught me the Pythagorean theorem and nothing about money. So I read hundreds of finance books - and ended up writing the one I wish someone had handed me at 22.
In October 2022, Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion. You probably remember the headlines. What you might not remember is the fine print: Musk borrowed $13 billion of that money. But he didn't get stuck with the loan. Twitter did. Not Elon. The company itself had to
For over a decade, one man shaped how millions of people invest. JL Collins - author of The Simple Path to Wealth, patron saint of the FIRE movement, the guy who made "just buy VTSAX" feel like a religious commandment - told his followers that all you needed was one
I know what you're thinking.. This article might be the opposite of what I've been preaching so far. But hear me out, you might be surprised. A couple sits across from Ramit Sethi on his podcast. They have $2 million in the bank. And they want
How long until you can actually stop working? Not the "67 and a gold watch" kind of retirement - the "I have enough, I'm done when I say I'm done" kind. The math behind FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) is almost offensively simple:
Every iPhone you've ever owned. Every Nvidia chip powering the AI revolution. Every advanced processor in every laptop, server, and data center on the planet. They all pass through one small Dutch town called Veldhoven. There, a company most people have never heard of builds machines so complex
Discover why Spotify surrenders approximately 69% of revenue to record labels, how streaming music economics work, and what it means for subscription prices and your investment portfolio.
Greek letters in investing made simple: manage risk & return.
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Ever feel like Starbucks is literally everywhere? From bustling downtown corners to random highway rest stops, those green mermaids seem to multiply faster than your credit card debt. But what most people don't realize is that Starbucks isn't just in the business of selling premium coffee
