A senior manager at a Fortune 500 firm, age 47, accepted a competing offer last spring and gave two weeks’ notice. Her recruiter had walked through base, bonus, and equity. Nobody walked through her…
A caller on The Indicator from Planet Money summed up the week’s lithium news in one line: “There is kind of a high environmental cost to getting this lithium out of the earth.” The headline…
A 52-year-old who recently retired and rolled $850,000 from a former 401(k) into a traditional IRA is staring at the same problem that fills retirement forums every week: how to draw a paycheck from…
Bitcoin’s (CRYPTO: BTC) latest rally attempt is running into an unexpected wall; the U.S. bond market. While crypto traders focused on ETF flows, institutional adoption, and the recent progress of the CLARITY Act in…
Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) is trading around $87 after slipping below the $90 support, with the coin still more than 69% below the $293 all-time high it set in January 2025. The current slide is…
For the first time in years, a retired teacher in Ohio, a former police sergeant in Massachusetts, or the widow of a federal civil servant might log into their Social Security account and find…
On a recent episode of the Money Guy Show, co-host Bo Hanson confronted a caller named Luke with a hard truth: “We got to get the engine right first” before adding “the hubcaps and…
Silver is having a structural moment. The metal pushed to $118.45/oz in January 2026 before settling near the $80 handle that several banks pencilled in as a base case, and Deutsche Bank and other…
XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) has slipped back to $1.40 after briefly breaking above $1.50 following news that the CLARITY Act cleared the Senate Banking Committee. At the same time, Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) has lost the…
Ben Carlson, portfolio manager at Ritholtz Wealth Management and the voice behind A Wealth of Common Sense, dropped a line on Morningstar’s The Long View podcast that I keep coming back to. Co-host Jeff…
For years, investors have watched private companies stay private longer while Wall Street’s biggest gains increasingly went to venture capital firms and institutional money managers. That’s part of why the upcoming IPO of SpaceX…
Two unconventional ETFs promise to monetize information edges that traditional fund managers ignore. The Unusual Whales Subversive Democratic Trading ETF (NASDAQ:NANC) mirrors stocks disclosed by Democratic members of Congress under the STOCK Act, while…
WTI crude touched $114.58 a barrel on April 7, 2026 before sliding back to $99.89 by April 27, a roughly $29 swing inside three weeks. That is the kind of move that makes investors…
In 2026, retirees who collect Social Security received a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment, adding roughly $56 per month to the average retirement benefit of $2,071. But the standard Medicare Part B premium jumped from $185.00…
The TIAA Institute-GFLEC Personal Finance Index has tracked how much Americans actually know about money for nearly a decade, and the 2025 wave delivers a finding that reads less like a survey result and…
