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Morgan Housel’s Sage Advice

January 28, 2024 | What never changes is the root of Housel’s new book, Same as Ever, and the bestselling author of The Psychology of Money joined Clay Finck to discuss the behaviors that never change. Here are some highlights of their conversation.

Let’s Play

January 27, 2024 | Science has long shown that play is healthy for humans, well beyond our childhood. Play has been linked with an ability to deal with stress, think creatively, and feel good.

Weight-loss Empire

January 26, 2024 | Eli Lilly’s rise is a quintessential American, capitalism success story: The pharmaceutical giant grew from a small laboratory in Indianapolis in 1876 to one of the world’s largest pharma companies

Hold Your Horses

January 25, 2024 | Competition in the EV industry is heating up, but Tesla is slowing down. And no, that’s not a reference to its Cybertrucks getting stuck in the snow.

The $3 Trillion Company

January 24, 2024 | Somewhere, Bill Gates is smiling. Microsoft’s remarkable run keeps going. The tech giant achieved the historic $3 trillion market valuation on Wednesday, more evidence of how the artificial intelligence boom has fueled its advance higher and higher.

Talk To Chuck

January 23, 2024 | Charles Schwab’s former marketing campaign stands as one of the most effective financial ad campaigns of all time. But those days are over. Schwab’s net income last year fell 29% from a year prior, and the stock has gotten punished.

On The Move

January 22, 2024 | American workers are getting antsy. About 85% of 1,000 U.S. professionals polled in a new LinkedIn survey say they’re considering changing jobs this year, up from 67% a year ago. About 90% of Gen Z workers — in their early and mid-20s — and 92% of millennials are considering a job change in 2024.