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Twelve Steps to Self-Forgiveness You really can set anything down. You CAN forgive yourself. Trump Tariffs and the Flight to Quality Tariffs on one small local…

Widespread tariffs are a bad idea. How do I know this? History shows they don’t work. Let’s look back. JP Morgan’s Michael Cembalest wrote about President…

A reader asks: There has been a clear distinction in recent years in sentiment data where party/political leaning sentiment goes in the opposite direction depending on…

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Here’s a crazy stat from Bloomberg: Half of American households account for 97.5% of the wealth in this country. This is the breakdown from Federal Reserve…

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I get a lot of emails from young people in the finance world asking for career advice. Career advice is hard. Your path is often dictated…

The Opposite of Fascism When everything they do points you towards cynicism… find a way to develop hope. Against Self-Improvement: Adam Phillips on the Danger of…

The Economist has a good piece about the growing importance of the stock market on household balance sheets. Here’s the chart that matters: By the end…

A reader asks: I own 76 single-family houses, the property management company running those and a small real estate brokerage. I love real estate. But how…