A career educator retires at 65 with a defined-benefit pension paying $9,200 a month, plus $1.4 million in a 403(b). Two years in, she opens a notice from Social Security and learns her Medicare…
Healthcare payrolls keep climbing, and hospital systems, payers, and clinics are now openly treating agentic AI as the cheapest unit of labor on the market. Stocks trading under $20 with credible agentic AI products…
Whirlpool (NYSE:WHR | WHR Price Prediction) CEO Marc Bitzer is making one of the bluntest recession comparisons of this earnings cycle. According to the Morning Brew Daily podcast segment covering the company’s Q1 results,…
A new concentration risk is building inside the corporate bond market, and it mirrors what investors are already experiencing with the Magnificent Seven in the S&P 500 index. According to a recent episode of…
On a recent TBPN segment, host John Coogan walked listeners through what he framed as the most consequential industrial policy intervention in semiconductors since the CHIPS Act, namely Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick meeting repeatedly…
The day after her husband’s funeral in spring 2024, Carol kept filing taxes the way she and her husband always had. Year of death: married filing jointly. Year one and year two, she still…
The Invesco Dorsey Wright Technology Momentum ETF (NASDAQ:PTF) is up roughly 58% year to date in 2026, which is what happens when a rules-based momentum fund collides with the largest data center buildout in…
Transferring a retirement account between custodians is one of those mundane logistical tasks that triggers outsized emotional reactions. A caller named D recently phoned in to Talking Real Money with exactly that anxiety, telling…
On a recent episode of the Money Guy Show titled Van Life Millionaires Are Leaving Millions on the Table, co-host Bo Hanson described a couple, Robert and Carrie, who had done almost everything right.…
Every few months, a move in the broader crypto space quietly signals something important about where Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) is headed. Ronin’s completed migration from an independent sidechain to a full Ethereum Layer 2…
A free steak dinner. A chart with a green line climbing past a red line. A pitch about a $1 million investment that becomes $1.5 million thanks to a 54% bonus that “expires in…
Kiplinger’s May 2026 Tax Letter highlights a shift in retirement plan policy that has been building since last summer. After decades of being walled off, the 401(k) is on track to allow private equity,…
American investors have a home-country problem. Roughly 60% of global market capitalization sits in U.S. stocks, but most U.S. brokerage accounts hold something closer to 100%. The iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (NASDAQ:IEFA) is…
A $5,000 bet on XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) or Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) today could look very different by 2028, and the difference between the two investments is wider than most people expect. XRP has momentum…
Many retirees are advised to defer paying taxes on their investments until retirement. "So many advisors have helped clients defer, defer, defer, because we all been told this myth, right?" said David Brooks on…
