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Monday links: a bad tradeoff
MarketsHow major asset classes performed in January 2026. (capitalspectator.com)What's going on with the dollar? (ritholtz.com)Pre...
What’s Going On with the Dollar?
I am always searching for interesting and informative charts, especially ones I can include in my quarterly call, that explain...
‘I‘m facing an ethical dilemma’: My widowed mother is c...
“My mother has now hired an attorney to revise the trust and remove her late husband’s children as beneficiaries.”
Here’s what’s worth streaming in February 2026 on Netfl...
With a few notable exceptions, the Winter Olympics is putting a chill on new streaming releases
‘Melania’ documentary’s $7 million box office is a win ...
The film’s box office receipts represent a drop in the ocean for Amazon MGM’s $75 million investment.
The ‘January barometer’ for stocks comes with a big ast...
If the first month of 2026 can be any guide to the rest of the year, investors should buckle up.
There’s now a bigger risk for stocks than the economy o...
January reminded investors that even solid earnings and a strong economy can take a backseat when geopolitical shocks rattle marke...
‘I’m rich in everything but parents’: I inherited $400K...
“I’m a 40-year-old woman in a committed relationship, and I’ve experienced the loss of both of my parents.”
U.S. stock futures fall, along with bitcoin, as gold an...
U.S. stock futures fell Sunday, along with bitcoin, after Friday’s massive sell-off in precious metals capped a tumultuous first m...
Saturday links: how software looks and feels
Saturdays we catch up with the non-finance related items that we didn’t get to earlier in the week. You can check out...
Sunday links: a desperate fallback
MarketsThe S&P 500 rose 1.45% in January 2026. (on.spdji.com)A look at just how crazy the silver market was this week. (rcmalterna...
MiB: Kate Burke, Allspring Global Investments, CEO
This week, I speak with Kate Burke, chief executive officer of Allspring Global Investments and director on the Board of Direc...
10 Sunday Morning Reads
Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • Trump’s Year of Anarchy: The Unconstrai...
‘I’m worried about cash flow’: I’m 71 with a $2.7 milli...
“My home is paid for and has an estimated value of $700,000.”
‘These are college students … not NFL players.’ Deion S...
Student fines “would be paid out of pocket, exactly like if a student-athlete gets a parking ticket on campus,” a University of Co...
Trump picking Kevin Warsh as Fed chair wasn’t enough to...
A double-whammy selloff of tech stocks and metals shook markets on Friday.
Oil prices unexpectedly score first monthly gain in hal...
The group of major oil producers known as OPEC+ will have to take oil flow uncertainty and an expected global supply surplus into ...