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Patience Pays
August 25, 2024 | We're chatting with Edwin Lugo, a member of our Mastermind Community and a professional investor with over 20 years of experience in managing international equities for various clients.
The Time Has Come
August 23, 2024 | “The time has come for policy to adjust,” Powell said during the Fed’s annual retreat this week in Jackson Hole.
Harness the Power
August 21, 2024 | We might not be far from a day when virtually everyone has an AI assistant at work. Need a tedious or monotonous series of tasks done by noon? No problem. Already, AI is helping people with something else: starting businesses.
Prime Targets
August 19, 2024 | Meet Annette Manes, an 83-year-old widowed social worker tricked by con artists impersonating JPMorgan Chase's fraud department and U.S. agents into handing over about $1.4 million of her savings.
Job Therapy
August 18, 2024 | Michael finds himself zoning out during team meetings, daydreaming about other careers and workplaces. Is it time for a change? Or is this just a normal phase of career ambivalence? Today, we're chatting with Tessa West, a leading expert in the science of interpersonal communication, about her new book.
Bargain Hunting
August 16, 2024 | Walmart is on a tear. The retail giant’s sales are climbing, pushing its stock to fresh highs this week after a 38% rally this year, compared to the S&P 500’s ~17% gain.
Burritos to Lattes
August 14, 2024 | From burritos to lattes — from one iconic American brand to another. That’s the path for star leader Brian Niccol, the Chipotle CEO, who is taking the helm of Starbucks next month.
Carry Trade Blowup
August 12, 2024 | After the dust settled a bit, the upheaval last Monday now appears to have been a short-lived panic triggered by a minor policy adjustment from the Bank of Japan and renewed concerns about a potential U.S. recession.
Rockefeller’s Letters
August 11, 2024 | The ideas that helped drive John D. Rockefeller’s rise to enormous wealth and success come one after the other: Starting points do not determine your endpoint.
VeriSign: The Internet’s Toll Road
February 23, 2025 | No, I don’t have a literal toll-road company to tell you about today; I actually have something much more powerful: a business that operates like the toll road I describe above, yet for the entire internet 👀
AutoZone: Under The Hood
February 16, 2025 | Few companies have been as prolific cannibals of their own stock as AutoZone, a franchise that has, in two decades, spent tens of billions of dollars consuming 90% of its outstanding shares.
Vital Farms: Egg-cellent Investment?
February 9, 2025 | Another company is now bringing Conscious Capitalism to public markets, again showing that putting ethical business and sustainability first isn’t just ESG gibberish but an actually winning strategy underpinning one of the most impressive brands in the world.
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