A 52-year-old with $1.5 million in a traditional 401(k) and a goal to retire at 57 faces a five-year gap. The 401(k) is built for 59½, the IRS charges a 10% penalty for early…
Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) is trading at $84 today, down 42% from its January high and hovering just above the $68 low it hit in April. The Alpenglow upgrade—the biggest consensus replacement in Solana’s history—is…
On a recent episode of the Money Guy Show titled Even Smart People Make These Massive Money Mistakes, co-host Bo Hanson delivered the line that should be taped to every high earner’s bathroom mirror:…
It’s pretty hard to know what to believe when it comes to this ongoing AI revolution. The AI bubble calls have been growing louder for well over a year now. And while some folks,…
On a recent episode of the Money Guy Show titled Even Smart People Make These Massive Money Mistakes, co-host Bo Hanson shared a truly painful reality about personal finance. He explained how trying to…
A California retiree with a $1 million dividend portfolio earning a 5% blended yield grosses $50,000 in annual income. After federal qualified-dividend tax and California’s state income tax, that number drops sharply. California treats…
The host of Retire SMART Podcast opened Episode 416 with a number that should stop every income-focused retiree in their tracks. The S&P 500’s dividend yield has fallen to roughly 1.1%, an all-time low…
The artificial intelligence boom has kicked off one of the largest infrastructure races since the early internet era. Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction) GPUs are selling faster than they can be packaged. High-bandwidth…
George Kamel, the Ramsey Solutions personality, recently spent 23 minutes on YouTube dismantling the Buy Now Pay Later pitch. His core claim: BNPL companies charge merchants 8% to 10% in processing fees, double or…
If you bought JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF (NASDAQ:JEPQ) for the monthly checks, you probably think you own a Nasdaq-100 portfolio with a covered-call overlay. That is mostly true. The part that gets…
A trader who bought ProShares UltraPro QQQ (NASDAQ:TQQQ) at the start of 2022 expecting the tech rally to continue ended the year down roughly 80%, while the Nasdaq 100 fell about 34%. That gap…
Natural gas equities enter summer 2026 with two powerful tailwinds. Artificial intelligence (AI) data center power demand is pulling structural load into Appalachia and the Gulf, with some producers now treating 10 billion cubic…
On a recent episode of The Ramsey Show, a caller named Joseph laid out a math problem that should not exist: a combined household income of about $340,000, a daughter heading to an SEC…
Suze Orman delivers financial advice with a blowtorch. On her October 10, 2024 podcast, a 65-year-old retired caller named Deb said her financial advisor had instructed her to leave her $125,000 TSP alone and…
The Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF Shares (NYSEARCA:VIG) is having a quieter year than its big-cap dividend-growth reputation suggests, with shares around $229 and a 5% year-to-date gain trailing the broader market. The…
