Consumer Spending, E-Commerce, and the Business of Lodging

That vacation, RV, or home renovation you're planning in retirement might cost a lot more than the price tag suggests. One extra withdrawal from your IRA can set off a chain reaction of higher taxes a...

8 Aug 12min

As earnings season winds to a close, the team discusses what we learned this quarter and why a new jobs report may actually be good for the market. Plus, we discuss The Trade Desk’s bad week, Google’s...

7 Aug 40min

The amount of stocks moving 10% or more in either direction this most recent quarter has been staggering. Even companies that post decent, even some might call good, results are dropping double digits...

6 Aug 21min

Earnings season continues to give strong results, but that doesn’t mean each stock is rising on the news. Today, we saw Shopify jump and Uber fall after earnings that both showed strong adoption for t...

5 Aug 19min

Shares of Palantir had an stellar day after reporting even more stellar earnings results. Many of the questions about getting commercial customers into its ecosystem appear to have been answered, and ...

4 Aug 22min

Mergers could be back in 2026 as companies try to get deals done while regulators allow them. But are buyouts always a good idea? We discuss a potential deal in pharma today, plus we go over the lates...

3 Aug 18min

Bethany McLean, veteran investigative journalist and co-author of The Smartest Guys in the Room, saw the end of Enron coming, and is now watching the AI trade very carefully. She has questions the mar...

2 Aug 25min

It’s the first Saturday of the month, which means it’s time for the next installment of our 2026 Financial Planning Challenge. We’ve spent most of this year discussing how to accumulate and manage wea...

1 Aug 27min