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Nobody wants to hear that their financial situation is the result of their own choices. But if you want to actually fix the problem, that’s exactly where the conversation has to start.
Everyone tells you that buying a home is the cornerstone of the American Dream and a guaranteed path to wealth. I’m here to tell you that for millions of Americans, it might be one of the most expensive financial mistakes they ever make.
I’m reporting live from Italy, and what I’m seeing on the ground tells a very different story than what you’re hearing back home. The Meloni-Trump dust-up is a lesson in how political noise can distract investors from what actually matters.
On Father’s Day, I came across something that stopped me cold. A letter from Karl Marx’s own father, written over 150 years ago, that reads like it was written yesterday.
We are sitting at forty trillion dollars in debt, and Washington wants to drop another one point five trillion on defense next year. If you think that kind of fiscal recklessness does not eventually show up in your retirement account, you are not paying attention.
There is a quiet crisis happening in American investing, and most people don’t even realize they’re caught in the middle of it. The mass affluent investor, someone with a net worth between $100,000 and $1 million, is being systematically ignored by the very industry that should be serving them.
Student loans are one of the worst financial decisions a young person can make in today’s world, and I’ve been saying it for years. The technology, the alternatives, and the negotiating leverage all point in one direction: stop taking on debt for a diploma you can get cheaper.
I was asked to do a “deep dive” into the latest inflation numbers this week during a daily television hit in the San Francisco–Oakland market. The headline figures were being celebrated: 2.7% CPI, 2.6% core. Victory laps everywhere. And my reaction was simple—you can’t take a deep dive into the shallow end of the pool without cracking […]