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Best of the Best

December 31, 2023 | 🎉🥂Happy New Year’s, everybody! What are your resolutions? My resolution in 2024 is to buy bitcoin in 2012.

New Year’s Resolutions

December 30, 2023 | Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve, and nearly half of all American consumers will make resolutions for 2024.

Party Like It’s 1999

December 29, 2023 | The Nasdaq 100 is partying like it’s 1999.

Phantom Debt

December 28, 2023 | Wells Fargo calls BNPL loans “phantom debt” that trick “consumers into a false security in which many small payments add up to one big problem.”

Out of Gas

December 27, 2023 | Apparently, we’ve become a stay-at-home nation. We have more cars than ever, yet we’re driving less.

December 23, 2023 | This is the last time we’ll be in your inbox for a few days as we take some time with our families for the holidays but we’ll see you again on December 27. In the meantime, there’s plenty of great stuff packed into today’s newsletter for you to enjoy.

Blame The Dollar

December 22, 2023 | Many folks will get Nike apparel as Christmas gifts this year, but Nike is on investors’ naughty list.

Let’s Go Private

December 21, 2023 | Argentina’s recently inaugurated new President, Javier Milei, is pushing forward with his reforms, now targeting state-run companies and aiming to turn them into more efficient, privately-run businesses.

Frozen Assets

December 20, 2023 | The U.S. and Europe are sitting on billions of dollars worth of “frozen” Russian financial assets, seized shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine.

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The Joys of Compounding

September 8, 2024 | Few individuals have studied the art of investing and the good life more than Gautam Baid. We chat with Baid about his writing, investing approach, life lessons, and more.

Clearly Cooled

September 6, 2024 | On Friday, the August jobs report showed the U.S. economy added 142,000 jobs last month, less than expected. This rebound from the soft July data that prompted a market selloff is more evidence that the labor market is a far cry from what it was circa 2021.