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Farmland Financialization

January 09, 2024 | China has officially dethroned Japan as the world’s top car exporter — with an assist from Russia. 

Pet Problems

January 08, 2024 | Huge losses from national disasters. Soaring prices. “Worst possible scenarios” for consumers.

Clear Vision

January 07, 2024 | It’s 2008, and Dave Gilboa can’t find his $700 glasses. 

Staying Focused

January 06, 2024 | Week one of 2024 is in the books, folks, and we’ve already broken half of our resolutions.

Retirement — In This Economy?

January 05, 2024 | Like many, we spent Friday refreshing our X feed, looking for announcements about approving a spot bitcoin ETF. Some expected today to be the day (as we write this, though, official confirmation is still pending.)

TikTok Takes On Amazon

January 04, 2024 | Could TikTok be the next big e-commerce company? TikTok already flipped the social media world upside down, drawing YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter to all focus more on short video content. Now, the company is taking on the e-commerce space, colliding with another giant: Amazon.

Wall Street Neighborhoods

January 03, 2024 | Rent growth is stronger for single-family homes than apartments, and Wall Street is looking to capitalize. Read more about this story.

Crony Capitalism

January 02, 2024 | Even staunch stock-pickers who zoom in on companies’ fundamentals acknowledge that nothing happens in a vacuum. Too much of a big-picture focus isn’t actionable, but none is equally problematic.

Best of the Best

December 31, 2023 | 🎉🥂Happy New Year’s, everybody! What are your resolutions? My resolution in 2024 is to buy bitcoin in 2012.

Giving Spree

June 28, 2024 | Warren Buffett, who turns 94 in August, has made his largest annual charitable donation to date. Read on for a preview of Warren Buffett’s will.

Cash Trap

June 26, 2024 | Even as the stock market has soared through the first six months of 2024, some Americans aren’t in any hurry to move their cash. Some investors have 25% or even 50% of their assets in Treasury bills and money-market funds, per The Wall Street Journal.

Real Estate Retirees

June 24, 2024 | With 401(k) balances as high as they’ve ever been, some investors are turning to something else: real estate.

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