Ben Carlson has a clean explanation for why the S&P 500 keeps grinding higher even when valuations look stretched and consumer sentiment sits in the dumps. The answer is the automatic plumbing of 401(k)s…
Warren Buffett, widely considered the world’s most successful investor, continues to lead by example in both business and philanthropy. As of May 2026, he has transitioned into the role of Chairman at Berkshire Hathaway,…
From his early role at PayPal to DOGE, Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, and more, Elon Musk is certainly everywhere, all at once. Add to his success story his purchase of X and the rise of…
On a recent episode of My First Million, Sam Parr told his co-host Shaan Puri that he keeps 80% of his portfolio in the S&P 500, which would not be remarkable except for who…
On the May 12 episode of The Clark Howard Podcast, financial advisor Wes Moss, CFP, told Clark Howard something most retirement content avoids saying out loud: When the tax bill comes due 3 months…
A 30-year-old caller named Dan phoned into The Ramsey Show with a question his lender had already half-answered for him: should he and his wife cash out about $36,000 in 401(k) money to put…
Jessica wrote to Suze Orman with a line that stopped me cold: “I woke up at 60 after 2 divorces and some tough times. But thanks to you, I also have 2 beautiful children…
Tiffany Aliche, the personal finance educator known as The Budgetnista, told podcast host Paula Pant on Afford Anything about the night her financial life cracked open. “I spent my 30th birthday in my middle…
Every week, hundreds of millions of dollars in gold bars are flying out of vaults in lower Manhattan and northern New Jersey. Most are bricks weighing about 2.2 pounds, the kilogram size that Asian…
You bought the house. Your name is on the deed. You closed before you ever met your spouse, paid the down payment from your own savings, and never added their name to the title.…
For 19 years, the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) business model rested on a single pillar: the iPhone. It drove cash, set the strategic roadmap, and defined the company's identity. That era is ending. In 2026, the…
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL | AAPL Price Prediction) and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) both just reported, and the contrast runs deeper than the headline numbers suggest. Apple posted its best March quarter ever. Alphabet delivered 63%…
Warren Buffett does not hand out personal endorsements of his money manager every day. That makes the line he delivered about Greg Abel, who formally became President and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway on January…
Smart glasses are entering their iPhone moment in 2026, and for the first time in a generation, Meta and Google are defining the inflection. Industry projections show category sales rising from 6 million units…
On Meta’s Q1 2026 earnings call, CFO Susan Li said the quiet part out loud. “We recently shared internally that we plan to reduce the size of our employee base in May. We believe…
Bitcoin’s core developers are openly debating whether to permanently freeze Satoshi Nakamoto’s roughly 1,096,358 BTC, a stash worth about $89 billion with BTC trading near $80,015, before quantum computers can crack the legacy addresses…
The 2026 chip war is over. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL | AAPL Price Prediction) won it in procurement meetings, well before product launches. The market is just catching up. Apple’s $287.44 share price and $4.22 trillion…
Ted Turner died on May 6, 2026, having spent his last two decades watching the network he built drift from what he called “world peace through hard news” into something he privately and publicly…
Mark Zuckerberg told 8,000 Meta employees in early May that their jobs were a casualty of the company's AI infrastructure budget. Through mid-July 2026, more than 165,000 tech workers have been cut industry-wide, running…
When Spirit Airlines’ yellow Airbus fleet went dark at 3:00 a.m. Eastern on May 2, stranding passengers and dissolving 17,000 jobs, the immediate culprits were obvious. A doubled jet fuel bill traceable to the…
