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After publishing The Untold Burden Of Being Your Family’s Financial Provider, I got this comment from a reader named Brian: “I can identify with this post as I am the family CFO / CIO. I think you are WAY overcomplicating this. What is wrong with merely investing in VTI / VXUS and chill? My returns have been 12%+ for doing nothing but DCA into them every month. Going on 20+ years (mutual fund shares before ETFs) it has worked. I realize you write a blog and invest in two ETFs and be done isn’t nearly as exciting but talk about mental…

Bitcoin closed with a 22% weekly gain on Friday, following a spate of positive developments for the world’s largest cryptocurrency. Bitcoin ended the day higher by 6% at $76,943.90, up from about $62,800 at the start of the week. Crypto-linked stocks rose, with Coinbase advancing 8% and Strategy up 6%.The rally began Wednesday when Treasury yields pulled back sharply following the Treasury’s bombshell intervention in the bond market, easing pressure on risk assets. That helped trigger a broader move into crypto, which was later amplified by a massive short squeeze, with roughly $2.7 billion in crypto short positions liquidated, according to…

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Matt Zames will take on an unpaid adviser position at the Social Security Administration, according to reports.

Please enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser or access the information through the links provided below. August 20, 2026 Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by National Westminster Bank Plc For release at 4:00 p.m. EDT The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced its approval of the application by National Westminster Bank Plc, of London, England, to establish a representative office in Stamford, Connecticut. For media inquiries, please email [email protected] or call 202-452-2955. Last Update: August 20, 2026

    There has been a lot of discussion about the impact of AI slop on writing and other creative works. I can’t speak to AI music or AI-created actors, but I can talk a bit about writing. To me, the biggest single issue is output over process. Any output – from a full-length book to a short blurb and everything in between – is only part of what the writer who creates a work accomplishes. It is what readers see, what professional writers get paid for, and the written legacy they leave behind. The greatest value in writing (to…

Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI). In chess, the Queen’s Gambit begins with what looks like a sacrifice. Despite the name, you don’t give up your queen. You offer a pawn, accepting a little risk early in exchange for something potentially far more valuable: control of the center of the board. Here’s what the setup looks like… (Credit: chess.com) It’s a strategy that has been used at the highest levels of chess for generations. Garry Kasparov, one of the greatest players in the history of chess, repeatedly battled through Queen’s Gambit positions during his legendary…

Hint: it’s not the U.S. Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI). A robot rocket in Shanghai… the rare earth choke point behind every humanoid… Home Depot’s warning on the consumer… why housing stocks are climbing anyway … and Louis Navellier changes his job after 47 years Yesterday, a Chinese robot maker delivered one of the wildest market debuts in recent memory. Shares of Unitree Robotics – the Hangzhou-based company whose backflipping, kung-fu-fighting humanoids have racked up tens of millions of views online – closed their first trading session up about 460%. The offering was oversubscribed…

Leading asset managers T. Rowe Price announced the acquisition of $19 billion F/m Investments in a press release Thursday afternoon. The deal brings F/m’s suite of leading fixed income strategies and ETFs into T. Rowe Price’s fund stable, reinforcing those areas in the latter’s list. The move is expected to increase T. Rowe’s fixed income AUM by almost 9%, nearly doubling its fixed income ETF AUM. Key Takeaways: T. Rowe Price will add the approximately $19 billion AUM F/m Investments to its roster. The move brings funds like the $7.2 billion F/m U.S. Treasury 3 Month Bill Fund (TBIL) into…