A Wealth of Common Sense. Investor, author, and host of Animal Spirits podcast, focuses on simplifying finance for everyone; has backed over 200 companies.
I also covered questions about the SpaceX IPO, investing in bonds during retirement, AI’s impact on the labor market, supporting your in-laws who didn’t save enough for retirement and balancing all of your financial goals in retirement.
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Is This a Bubble?
1Communication services is basically tech. The biggest holdings are Google and Meta.
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I was interviewing for a job right out of college at a financial institution.
It went okay but I never got called back for a second interview. A friend applied for the same role and made the second round of interviews. He eventually got a job in the training program.
I asked him how he made it through.
My brother was friends with one of the hiring managers. I got lucky.
Luck plays a bigger role in your career path than m...
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Someone alerted me Risk & Reward was the best seller1 in stock market investing this week:
It’s a pretty eclectic mix of investment styles here.
You have value investing (Benjamin Graham), growth investing (William O’Neill), risk management (Nassim Taleb), stock-picking (Jim Cramer) and some day trading books.
This is what makes a market. Something for everyone.
It’s also why it’s so difficul...
Here’s a chart for you:
Consumer sentiment readings go all the way back to the early-1950s.
The latest reading was the lowest on record.
Yes you read that right. We are currently sitting at the lowest level of consumer sentiment in the past 75 years!
Seriously people?!
Lower than the Great Financial Crisis when the stock market crashed almost 60%, the financial system nearly imploded and the unemployment rate reach...
