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Rabbithole: What Do People Get Wrong About Money?

The Big Picture

During the 2000 crash, I had no 401k, and my wifes 403B was tiny. In my own family, myself and my two siblings each had a very different relationship with money. I grew up lower income. My sister grew up a little more comfortable, middle income and the youngest, my brother, was solidly upper-middle class.

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Ten Questions on Tariffs, the Economy, Markets, and Our Outlook

Carson Wealth

The Budget Lab at Yale University estimates larger prices increases on items like computers and electronics (+10.6%), apparel (+7.5%), autos (+6.1%), fresh produce like fruits and vegetables (+2.9%), and wood products (+2.9%). since election day, while the small cap Russell 2000 index is down 7.6%. The S&P 500 Index is up just 0.4%

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Things Change

The Better Letter

Four of 1990’s top ten were still there in 2000. IBM topped the list in 1980 and 1990, but was off it entirely by 2000. Also off the list for 2000: Philip Morris (still profitable due to international markets, but tobacco was more and more a social pariah in the U.S.), Only Microsoft remained from the 2000 list.

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Transcript: John Montgomery, Bridgeway Capital Management

The Big Picture

That was like, I should have paid more attention to that question because my budget, my business plan was 50% of our net worth before it was all said and done. We can go deeper on small, you go 00:21:27 [Speaker Changed] Micro cap and 00:21:28 [Speaker Changed] Deeper to a degree, our benchmark is still the Russell 2000 value index.

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Transcript: Ron Shaich, Au Bon Pain, Panera Bread & CAVA

The Big Picture

He began with a single restaurant, a single cookie store, and eventually parlayed that into a series of acquisitions, mergers, expansions, ultimately leading to the Panera Bread concept, which now has 2000 locations and does about six and a half billion dollars. And, you know, we can’t agree on a budget for 20 months.

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Transcript: Stephanie Kelton on US Fiscal Policy and the ‘Deficit Myth’

The Big Picture

You were the Chief Economist for the US Senate Budget Committee during, was that during the Obama administration? So wait, so you are the Chief economist for the Democrat US Senate Budget Committee, who is the chief economist for the Republicans Stephanie Kelton : Bill something? ’cause I was just teaching economics at UMKC.

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Mideast War an Investor Bore as Markets Soar

Investing Caffeine

For context, that’s 40% more than the company spent over the entire 2000–2020 period combined. A huge portion of the project costs are dedicated to the budget for NVIDIA super chips. In the U.S., To illustrate the scale: Amazon is forecasted to spend more than $100 billion in CapEx this year. Oracle Corp.