On a recent episode of Ramsey Everyday Millionaires, a caller asked whether a boat costing more than his annual income was too expensive. The host pivoted to defend Mark Zuckerberg's 387-foot superyacht, the Feadship-built…
The Slate Money hosts opened their latest episode with a number that should make every investor sit up. President Trump’s stock trading activity jumped roughly 10x quarter over quarter, rising from around 300 trades…
Here is the data point that should make every passive index investor pause. On Retire SMART Podcast Ep 416, the host laid out the math: “If we removed the Nvidias, the AMDs, so AI…
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…
Mark Zuckerberg said what every mega-cap CEO is probably thinking but few will say on tape. In leaked audio from an April 30, 2026 Meta all-hands, the CEO told employees: “The AI models learn…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average punched through to a fresh record this week, its first since February, while the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index sat at 49.8 in April, a reading the survey…
Holding a high-yield dividend portfolio in a taxable account at the 24% federal bracket means writing the IRS a $14,400 check every year on $60,000 of income that should have been yours. It repeats…
At the 24% federal bracket, a portfolio throwing off $42,000 in dividend income hands roughly $10,080 to the IRS every year. Inside a Roth, that number goes to zero. The math is identical on…
Replacing a real paycheck with dividends is the cleanest version of financial independence. The income target here is $65,000 per year, roughly the US median individual wage, and the question is whether a $650,000…
The AI trade has had favorites. NVIDIA, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta have carried the narrative, while two enterprise tech giants have quietly compounded earnings and built backlogs that few retail investors are talking about.…
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve posted back-to-back record drawdowns in mid-May, with 9.92 million barrels released in the week ending May 15 and 8.6 million the week before. Those twin releases brought the stockpile to…
Warren Buffett spent six decades insisting that big technology sat outside his circle of competence. Apple was the celebrated exception, a consumer staples bet dressed in silicon. Everything else, from Microsoft to Amazon to…
The Trade at a Glance Stanley Druckenmiller’s Duquesne Family Office sold its entire 385,000-share position in Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL | GOOGL Price Prediction) during the first quarter of 2026, redeploying capital into three memory and…
Most mega-cap and Mag 7 names are either asset-light platforms or asset-heavy industrials. Amazon is one of the very few that owns the dirt and the compute. That dual ownership, hardened by $44.2 billion…
Here is the trade of the decade: hyperscalers are spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure, and almost all of that money lands on one company’s income statement. NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction)…
Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-B | BRK-B Price Prediction) is a stock built to own for decades because its structural design, a diversified industrial conglomerate sitting atop the largest discretionary cash pile in corporate America, is…
Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL | MRVL Price Prediction) is in the middle of a textbook AI-driven breakout, with the stock up more than 105% year to date and over 37% just in the past month…
In a move that crystallized just hours before President Donald Trump touched down in Beijing for his May 14-15 summit with Xi Jinping, the United States quietly approved roughly 10 Chinese firms to purchase…
President Trump’s delegation to Beijing this week included 17 American chief executives. Fifteen flew commercial or on corporate jets. Two boarded Air Force One: Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA | TSLA Price Prediction) CEO Elon Musk and…
