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What are your chances of living to 95? Mine are 33%. That’s one-in-three odds of making it to the default age for financial planning... Read More

Nvidia’s stock rose on Friday to secure its best weekly performance in more than a year, following a major endorsement for its... Read More

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“Please, Mr. Tim. I have a huge favour to ask. My son, my four-year-old, has no future here…Please will you take him with you to... Read More

Trump's AI Action Plan demands models pursue objective truth, as research reveals undisclosed left-leaning biases that could influence voters... Read More

Parents should worry that Mamdani-care will prove every bit as low-quality as it is fundamentally unaffordable. Read More

It once had the biggest population.  Read More

Trump said this week that Americans have “the greatest economy maybe in the history of the world.” Reality keeps pointing in the opposite... Read More

Here is the headline story of the below-expectations July jobs report — and the one the usual naysayers in the financial commentariat are... Read More

The years from 1919 to 1933 were among the most calamitous and historically decisive in European history. Read More

America’s housing crisis has been rightly blamed on a lack of supply. Lately the finger has been pointed at inflation as the driving... Read More

Framed as ‘good for the world economy’, joint intervention between US and Japan to boost the yen could mainly benefit America Read More

Historic talent is leaving DeepMind and Google, but that may ultimately *help* Google's Gemini efforts... Read More

Politicians can lecture people to lower their expectations, or they can stop pursuing inflationary policies that everything more expensive. Read More

'Why should I praise you for finally abandoning your childish nonsense?' Read More

Why are you spending three hours writing an essay when ChatGPT can do it in 15 seconds? Read More

Why you shouldn't use leverage when investing, even if you're young. Read More

A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an... Read More

The average mortgage payment on the typical new home sold in the U.S. rose above the upper limit of affordability for the typical American... Read More

Crowd behavior in prediction, betting and stock markets. Read More

We like to buy meritorious companies that meet our eight criteria for stock selection. Then we hold our winners to a fault, because most of... Read More

The S&P 500 was flat but the details were more interesting. Read More

NGDP is growing too fast. Read More

Gold and bitcoin have retreated from recent highs, but most major market indicators still sit above long-term averages. Read More

Markets remained mixed for a second month in July, based on a set of ETFs tracking the major asset classes.  Read More

The 60/40 portfolio is broken because equity returns are driven by AI concentration rather than the business cycle, while bond returns are... Read More