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Robinhood: The Amazon Prime of Gen Z’s Finances?
November 9, 2025 | Robinhood has earned a bad name in some people’s view, and it has deserved much of the criticism it’s gotten, but I actually think its name is very fitting: the company has arguably done as much as any fintech to “take from the rich, and give to the poor,” living up to the ideals of Robin Hood (the fictional character), namely by bringing commissions on stock trading down to zero for millions of retail investors.
Salesforce: Agentforce vs. AI
November 2, 2025 | If you work at a large American company, there’s a good chance you use this company’s software every day. If you’re not in the corporate world, there’s an equally good chance you have no idea what this company does.
MSCI: Passive Investing’s Big Winner?
October 26, 2025 | If you’ve ever owned an international index fund, there’s a good chance you’ve quietly been paying MSCI. Not directly, but through the fund’s expense ratio, the asset manager kicks a sliver of those fees back to MSCI for the right to track its benchmark, which are the gold-standard metrics for measuring many aspects of financial markets globally.
