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A podcast listener asks: If there are no iron laws in markets and nothing works forever as an indicator, perhaps studying the stock market is useless?…

There are 70+ million baby boomers. Many of them are retired. Most of them will be in relatively short order as 10,000 or so people will…

A reader asks: Does Nick really think upper middle class goes up to $10 million?! That’s rich! My colleague Nick Maggiulli has a great new book…

This episode is sponsored by Vanguard. Learn more at: https://vgi.vg/3GbOsYM Register here for an Exhibit A live tour On today’s show, we discuss: That time people…

I was at an institutional investor conference back in 2011. The stock market had recovered somewhat from the depths of the 2008 financial crisis but plenty…

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Right or wrong, our economic system invariably creates haves and have-nots. It’s a feature not a bug. This feature has always been more prevalent in the…

Five Habits to Help Kids Be Resilient You know what… I need these reminders as well. Politics is Broken, I Mean, Really It’s been getting incrementally…

Here’s a question we got in the Animal Spirits inbox this week: They always say the stock market has returned 10% over the last 100 years…

A reader asks: Is it a good thing or bad thing if someone started investing in that lost decade? This was a follow-up question to this…