My children often tell me that “today” is the best or worst day ever. Sometimes both land on the same day. Apparently it is possible to have the worst day ever multiple times a…
Melissa called into the Afford Anything podcast with one of the more enviable problems in personal finance. She retired at 49, six years ago, and lives off the cash flow from three rental properties…
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.…
Howard Lindzon does something most venture capitalists would never do: he tells his limited partners, upfront, that most of his bets will fail. The StockTwits CEO and Social Capital founder describes his seed fund…
When the CEO of America’s largest appliance maker compares today’s demand to the 2008 financial crisis, it’s worth pausing before you swipe for that new fridge. On the latest earnings call, Whirlpool chief Marc…
Brad Conger, chief investment officer at Hirtle Callaghan, sat down on Barron’s Streetwise with Jack Hough this month with a message every AI investor should hear before clicking buy. “I think there’s just an…
Most renters splitting rent with a roommate or partner treat that monthly Venmo as a wash. Money in, money out. What they miss is that those payments, documented correctly, can be the difference between…
A salesman called The Ramsey Show with what sounds like the opposite of a problem. He’d tripled his income, was sitting on $50,000 in the bank, and his household was earning just north of…
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…
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…
The most uncomfortable fact in professional money management arrived courtesy of S&P Dow Jones Indices: 90% of active fund managers underperformed the S&P 500 over the last 15 years. These are people paid handsomely…
A 54-year-old caller from Canada phoned into Ramsey Everyday Millionaires with a problem most people would consider terminal: no retirement savings, no house, and a net monthly income of $5,600. The host’s response was…
On a recent episode of the Retire SMART Podcast, the host opens with a claim that contradicts what most 401(k) participants have been told their entire working lives: “only 4% of the people I’ve…
Most retirement calculators chase a single goal: making your money last as long as possible. Jim Saulnier, host of The Retirement and IRA Show, thinks that is the wrong question. On a recent episode,…
Investors have spent the past year glued to every Federal Reserve press conference and Treasury auction. The 10-year Treasury yield sits at 4.46% as of May 13, 2026, up 0.16% from a month ago,…
Jim Cramer went on Mad Money Friday with a counterintuitive pitch: “You buy NVIDIA not for China, not because of the Cerebras IPO, but because it’s actually a cheap stock, cheaper than Intel, cheaper…
Happy Friday, all. Here’s some only-in-2026 math for you. “If you buy too much compute, you go out of business. If you buy too little compute, you can’t serve your customers.” That’s Krishna Rao,…
Although Wall Street has spent the better part of two years lecturing investors that the AI trade is crowded, the capex bill is unpayable, and the mega-caps have run out of room to grow,…
Wall Street braces for what could be the largest stock market debut in history, but the most cited academic on US IPO performance is warning buyers to sit on their hands. SpaceX is reportedly…
