Netflix grew 13%. Viewing grew 2%
The gap between those two numbers is the entire business model. Plus: what 3.5% inflation quietly charges a $10,000 balance, and why "the European housing market" describes almost nobody.
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The IPO trap: why 'Getting in on the ground floor' usually means getting trampled
On May 18, 2012, Facebook went public in the most anticipated IPO in a decade. Retail investors - regular people with brokerage accounts - snapped up 26% of the shares offered. What those regular people didn't know was that Facebook had quietly told its largest institutional investors that second-quarter
I wrote the personal finance book I needed at 22
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.
Barbarians at the gate: how to buy a $25 Billion company with almost none of your own money
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
Why smart investors are finally going global (and you should too)
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