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The gap between Wall Street and Main Street just hit a new extreme. On CNBC Friday, Rick Santelli walked viewers through the University of Michigan’s final May sentiment reads, and the numbers landed harder…
The stock market has spent the past year rewarding companies tied to artificial intelligence, data centers, and energy infrastructure. Yet all of those themes may soon take a back seat to a single IPO.…
Andrew Slimmon, senior portfolio manager at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, used his recent appearance on Barron’s Streetwise podcast to push back on the loudest narrative in markets right now. “I think about the dot-com…
Mining has long been a notoriously cost intensive industry. The profits derived from extracted mining products, whether they be precious or industrial metals or minerals, have long been dependent on the unstable balance between…
Jeff Bezos sat down with CNBC’s Squawk Box on May 20, 2026, delivering one of the bluntest defenses of his own tax bill any U.S. billionaire has offered in years. The segment, titled "Jeff…
The headlines writing themselves before Kevin Warsh took the oath as the 17th Chair of the Federal Reserve on May 22, 2026, were the obvious ones. Markets wanted a read on the rate path.…
For much of early 2026, the U.S. economy looked like it might pull off a difficult balancing act. Inflation readings had cooled from their 2024 highs, job growth remained intact, and consumer spending —…
Memorial Day weekend is arriving with the most expensive gasoline Americans have seen in four years, and the supply data suggests relief is not coming soon. CNBC energy reporter Pippa Stevens, speaking on Closing…
A lot of investors associate Vanguard almost exclusively with low-cost passive indexing on the equity side. But what many people may not realize is that in recent years, Vanguard has also built a fairly…
Retiring at 62 on $4,500 a month sounds workable until you run the numbers against pre-Medicare healthcare. That gap between the day someone walks away from work and the day Medicare kicks in at…
A 69-year-old couple with $850,000 in investable assets faces a specific problem: they want equity exposure without the risk of a bear market gutting their principal in the first years of retirement, and they…
On a recent Rich Habits Podcast Q&A, co-host Robert Croak gave a 40-year-old listener named Angela a blunt answer about the $175,000 she and her spouse netted from a recent home sale. They were…
Sovereign debt loads keep climbing, the dollar index is wobbling, and central banks are still net buyers of bullion. That backdrop has pushed realized gold prices into uncharted territory, with major producers booking $3,500…
Commodities have spent the past year doing something most equity investors barely noticed: compounding quietly while the headlines stayed fixated on AI capex and Fed cut paths. WTI crude sits at around $112 a…
A retired couple sells a rental property they have owned for decades and suddenly faces a large capital gains tax bill. Instead of immediately paying taxes on the sale, they move $400,000 of the…
