Picture a single 73-year-old retiree sitting on $1.3 million in a traditional 401(k), drawing $36,000 a year in Social Security, and feeling reasonably set for retirement. 2026 is the year required minimum distributions begin,…
Jim Cramer’s blunt line to a young first-time homebuyer on the May 22 episode of Mad Money: “Expect corrections and don’t rely on hope as an investing strategy.” The caller, a younger investor, had…
A 70 year old retiree sitting on $2 million in a traditional 401(k) has roughly three years before required minimum distributions start dictating tax bills. The conventional planning advice (Roth conversions, charitable distributions, asset…
Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) is trading around $2,091 today, down 57% from its all-time high of $4,946, set in August 2025. To move past $4,000 again, Ethereum needs to nearly double from its current price.…
Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) has delivered positive returns in three out of the last five calendar years, which turns a $1,000 investment in Q1 2021 into around $62,000 by Q4 2025 and $41,000 today. This…
The most quotable framing of America’s rare earth predicament this year came from outside the rare earth industry itself. Speaking with Bloomberg Businessweek on May 22, 2026, REalloys CEO Lipi Sternheim reduced geopolitics to…
Rashaad Bilal of Earn Your Leisure distilled the Musk-versus-Altman saga down to one sharp line: “He knows the flaws because he knows the man.” That framing reorients how investors should read every legal filing,…
Ran Neuner sat down with Scott Melker on The Wolf Of All Streets podcast and laid out a chart pattern that should make every Bitcoin bull pause. The episode title says it plainly: “Bitcoin…
Clare Flynn Levy, author of Stock Market Maestros, recently appeared on the Afford Anything podcast and delivered what may be the most deflating advice a long-term investor can hear: stop trying to be clever.…
The ERShares Private-Public Crossover ETF (NYSEARCA:XOVR) sits at an awkward crossroad heading into summer 2026. Shares trade near $19.08, down 5% year-to-date even as the public-side AI mega-caps it holds have ripped higher. That…
First Trust S&P REIT Index Fund (NYSEARCA:FRI) tracks the S&P United States REIT Index and passes through rental cash flow from roughly 140 publicly traded landlords. FRI paid out $0.8155 per share across four…
On a recent All-In Podcast episode featuring guest Gavin Baker, the roundtable looked at the exact same economic data and came away with completely different investment outlooks. David Friedberg is highly focused on building…
The Vanguard S&P 500 Value Index Fund ETF Shares (NYSEARCA:VOOV) distributes income four times a year from the dividend-paying half of the S&P 500, and at roughly $223 a share it has quietly compounded…
iShares Select Dividend ETF (NASDAQ:DVY) is one of the older income-focused funds on the market. The question for owners is simple: can the income stream hold up? DVY pays variable quarterly distributions sourced from…
The VIX ripped to 31.05 in late March before settling back near 18, and anyone who watched their growth holdings whip around during that stretch is probably re-reading the case for boring stocks. That…
