A Wealth of Common Sense. Investor, author, and host of Animal Spirits podcast, focuses on simplifying finance for everyone; has backed over 200 companies.
Jim Simons created perhaps the greatest market-beating machine ever constructed at Renaissance Technologies.
The Medallion Fund returned a preposterous 66% per year for 30 years.
The fund traded a lot and I’m still not quite sure what signals the code-breakers and rocket scientists used. But in Greg Zuckerman’s book The Man Who Solved the Market, one of the partners at the firm said they were only right abou...
Bill Sweet joined me on the show again this week to answer questions about healthcare options in early retirement, in-plan Roth conversions, the secret sauce of retirement planning and how the new Trump savings accounts work.
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The Psychology of Sitting in Cash
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The dollar continues falling, now down around 11% from January 2025 levels:
This is a big move by currency standards, especially the global reserve currency.
When you see a move this big in something as important as the dollar people get nervous. Just look at the headlines:
Until they crashed last week, we also saw the price of gold and silver going parabolic.
The concern here is that all of our government spending, hig...
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The tailwinds that have lead to a healthy market environment
How flows have started to shift toward broader regional diversification an...
Social Security is the most important retirement plan ever created in the United States.
Around 70 million Americans receive Social Security benefits. That number will surely rise in the years ahead as more baby boomers retire.
For people who are 65 or older, more than 40% of recipients receive 50% or more of their income from Social Security. Millions of retirees would be impoverished without Social Security benefits:
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