The $1,000 starter emergency fund has been gospel in personal finance circles for two decades. Andrew, host of The Personal Finance Podcast, thinks it sets people up to fail. On a recent episode titled…
XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) whale wallets just hit an all-time high. 332,230 wallets now hold at least 10,000 tokens, per on-chain analytics firm Santiment. However, XRP slipped back below $1.45, and is currently trading in…
Angela called into the Rich Habits Podcast with a problem most of us would happily trade for: she and her spouse, both 40, just netted $175,000 in cash from a home sale and want…
Every investor eventually faces the same question: when does the certainty of a bond beat the upside of a stock? Evan from the Investing for Beginners Podcast laid out a clean answer, and the…
The Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair today in a 54-45 vote—the closest in modern history. He replaces Jerome Powell on Friday May 15, and his first FOMC meeting is scheduled for June…
A 71-year-old widow we’ll call Margaret has $1.4 million in a traditional IRA, rolled over from her former 401(k), and writes checks every December for $5,000 to $10,000 split between her church and a…
The Allianz 2025 Annual Retirement Study put a number on something many Americans already felt: confidence in their financial future has eroded at a measurable rate. Overall financial confidence dropped 13 percentage points from…
The Allianz 2025 Annual Retirement Study added a single statistic that shifted the conversation about retirement readiness. The big takeaway is that 67% of Americans worry Social Security will not last through their full…
Craig Johnson, Chief Market Technician at Piper Sandler, used his CNBC Morning Call Sheet appearance to flag concerns for self-directed investors riding the AI trade. Introducing Piper Sandler’s report The Bull Market That Few…
Spot Bitcoin ETFs are once again attracting serious institutional capital, posting seven straight weeks of inflows as investor appetite for regulated Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) exposure strengthens. The sustained momentum comes after a volatile start…
Sébastien Page, Head of Global Multi-Asset and Chief Investment Officer at T. Rowe Price, used a CNBC appearance this week to challenge one of the deepest reflexes in portfolio construction: that long-duration Treasuries cushion…
The Northwestern Mutual 2025 Planning & Progress Study put a number on what most Americans already sensed: their retirement will look almost nothing like their parents’ did. According to the study, 80% of Americans…
Piper Sandler’s Chief Market Technician Craig Johnson walked onto CNBC’s Morning Call Sheet with a message for anyone planning to trade today’s Trump-Xi headlines: keep your expectations in check. Asked how the recent AI…
The Real Estate Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLRE) trades around $45 with roughly $7.71 billion in assets and a trailing distribution yield of 3.4%. Nine of the top ten holdings are equity REITs, and…
Bloomberg’s Stuart Livingstone-Wallace delivered a line worth pausing on this week. Responding to a question about whether a U.S. naval posture was choking off Iranian crude flows, he told viewers: “We’ve had no tankers…
