Clever Girl Finance

APRIL 11, 2025

Fast food spending on the go 4. The number shocked me. Fast food spending on the go If you’re a parent, you know the chaos of running kids from one activity to the next. I was grabbing fast food more often than I realized $10 here, $15 there. Look for recurring charges, fast food stops, or unused subscriptions.

Budgeting

Clever Girl Finance

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This means no new clothes, gadgets, books, or takeoutonly necessities like food, rent, and hygiene products. For me, I discovered that food delivery and random Amazon purchases were my biggest spending problems. Likewise, if you have your credit card number memorized, cut it up and ask for a new one.

Budgeting

Abnormal Returns

JUNE 27, 2025

nytimes.com) Survivorship bias affects in any number of ways. abnormalreturns.com) Mixed media Why entrepreneurs love discontinued food brands. Strategy Why you shouldn't fear all-time highs. ritholtz.com) Compounding math is often confounding. abnormalreturns.com) Longform links: digital afterlives. marginalrevolution.com)

Math

The Big Picture

MAY 27, 2025

The guy is a brilliant operator, one of the best performing publicly traded CEOs in history, at least in the, in the food and consumer services sector. So, so those numbers are astonishing. And I love food. And there was a number that were actually in that business. What can I tell you? Welcome to Bloomberg.

Food

Calculated Risk

JANUARY 11, 2025

This is monthly retail sales and food service, seasonally adjusted (total and ex-gasoline). Any number below 50 indicates that more builders view sales conditions as poor than good. -- Friday, January 17th -- 8:30 AM: Housing Starts for December. This graph shows retail sales since 1992. 10:00 AM: The January NAHB homebuilder survey.

Retail

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Food for Thought… “Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.” – Mary Oliver Tax Tip… Did You Know That You Have the Right to Challenge the IRS? Tip adapted from Green Matters 9 Weekly Riddle… A palindrome is any word, phrase, or number that reads the same, either forward or backward.

Marketing

Clever Girl Finance

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The basic no spend month rules Spend only on essentials : Rent/mortgage, food, insurance, transportation, and bills are allowed. It’s a good idea to buy personal hygiene items in advance of your no spend month so you can reduce the number of essentials you need to get beforehand.

Budgeting

Clever Girl Finance

JANUARY 10, 2025

For instance, inhealth, money enables you to afford nutritious food, fitness memberships, and necessary healthcare services. Creating this list helps you see the bigger picturemoney isnt just numbers in a bank account. Start by considering key categories and how finances play a role in each.

Ethics

Carson Wealth

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The economy created 227,000 jobs in November, close to expectations, which somewhat made up for the low 36,000 number in October (revised up from 12,000). Another reason for optimism is that we expect headline inflation to remain muted (close to the Feds target of 2%), in no small part due to easing energy and food prices.

Marketing

Validea

JUNE 16, 2025

We dive into the numbers, examine the some of the portfolio stock selections, and offer guidance on what type of investor each strategy may suit best. Sample picks: Cal-Maine Foods ( CALM ): +65.4% But in today’s market, with rapidly shifting macro conditions, rising rates, and ongoing uncertainty, which approach is winning?

Valuation

Clever Girl Finance

APRIL 22, 2025

Food and beverage 3. These include sectors like healthcare, food, repair services, and childcare. These businesses typically operate in industries like healthcare, food, repair services, and personal care. Food and beverage Food and beverage are also recession proof industries. What is a recession-proof business?

Economy

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

The food industry, probably not. SOXX and SMH are the two largest semiconductor ETFs I am aware of and PBJ is a food and beverage ETF with an all-timer of a symbol. That's Davis talking, I don't know but assuming those numbers are accurate, I won't say there are plenty of places to get that kind of yield but there are some.

Assets

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

6,7 Stocks finished the week with a number of records: the S&P 500 crossed the 6,000 mark, and the Dow breached 44,000 for the first time on Friday. If you’re unsure what your “numbers” are, schedule a visit with your doctor to monitor them and understand why each is important. Economic news that showed a 2.2

Marketing

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

OCTOBER 28, 2024

On Tuesday, Standard & Poor’s reported that the number of stocks above their 20-day moving average fell to nearly 50 percent. Food for Thought… “ Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.” – George Washington Carver Tax Tip… Is Your Office in a Historic Building?

Marketing

WiserAdvisor

JUNE 17, 2025

Whether it is finance, technology, healthcare, entertainment, or even food, fresh trends are emerging across the board. Want some numbers to back that up? That includes everything from electronics and cars to clothes and even some food products. This is an interesting time for the world.

Financial Advisor

Discipline Funds

JULY 14, 2025

We are unhappy about our healthcare, the cost of (our increasingly gigantic) homes, the quality of our (abundant) food and many other things that previous generations couldn’t dream of having. But I reverse engineered the numbers on this article. Conclusion #2 – Americans don’t save enough.

Healthcare

The Big Picture

JANUARY 22, 2025

Barry Ritholtz : One of the things always surprises clients when I show them the impact of compounding returns over time, you get some really giant numbers. You don’t have to say, Hey, I’m going to go run a half marathon, or, Hey, I’m going to cut out every bad food that I’ve ever eaten. What do we do now?

Wealth Management

Carson Wealth

JANUARY 21, 2025

and core CPI (excluding food and energy) rising just 0.2%. These numbers are clearly over the Feds 2% target. However, more recent numbers look even better. The Inflation Picture Looks Good The December consumer price index (CPI) data was released on Wednesday and came in below expectations, with headline CPI rising 0.4%

Marketing

Carson Wealth

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Core CPI, which excludes food and energy, also rose 0.3%, and is up 3.3% These numbers are clearly over the Feds 2% target. As you saw from the numbers above, inflation really isnt a problem anymore. Headline CPI rose 0.3% and is up 2.7% from last year. year over year. We clearly disagree with all of this.

Marketing

Carson Wealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Core CPI (excluding food and energy), which is typically used as a gauge for underlying inflationary pressure by the Fed, rose 0.3% It probably sounds bonkers to say inflation has normalized when these numbers are clearly above the Fed’s target of 2%. Headline CPI rose 0.2% in October and is up 2.6% year over year. since last year.

Marketing

The Big Picture

MARCH 4, 2025

And generally speaking, we are sort of number one or number two in everything that we do, which, which again is a great privilege to work there from that perspective. So again, when we first started specialized industries, I’m not gonna remember the exact number, but we probably had five industries within, within that, right?

Banking

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Last week’s riddle: How many times can you subtract the number 75 from 7,500? The return and principal value of investments will fluctuate as market conditions change. When sold, investments may be worth more or less than their original cost. Companies may reschedule when they report earnings without notice.

Marketing

Wealth Management

JUNE 9, 2025

Number 8860726. Because of the many parties in the food chain, the DC industry is more complicated than wealth management, and any change affecting one segment likely will affect others, causing chain reactions. Registered in England & Wales with number 01835199, registered office 5 Howick Place, London, SW1P 1WG.

Wealth Management

Carson Wealth

MARCH 7, 2025

These include national security-based tariffs on steel, aluminum, and even lumber and agricultural imports (the US imports $200 billion in food products). Amongst other measures, theyre imposing broad tariffs on food imported from the US, which is targeted to hit the export-oriented US agricultural industry.

Economy

Dear Mr. Market

MARCH 6, 2025

2018 : -4.41% 2019 : +31.74% 2020 : +18.38% Looking at these numbers, history shows that the first wave of tariffs introduced by Trump created notable market volatility, hurt certain U.S. That lethargic and downright comatose feeling the body goes through trying to digest too much food is akin to what our economy is dealing with right now.

Marketing

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Ironically, strong retail sales numbers—while a sign of a strong economy—send a mixed message to investors. For the past couple of years, inflation has been the focus of the Fed’s efforts to manage rising prices by tightening the money supply. The return and principal value of investments will fluctuate as market conditions change.

Marketing

Abnormal Returns

JUNE 24, 2025

news.crunchbase.com) Protein Food companies need to stop putting extra protein into everything. awealthofcommonsense.com) Case-Shiller housing numbers showed a 2.7% (finance.yahoo.com) How law firms can utilize AI. theatlantic.com) Coca-Cola ($KO) is getting a boost from its Fairlife milk business. annual return for April.

Ethics

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Food for Thought… “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” Last week’s riddle: A palindrome is any word, phrase, or number that reads the same, either forward or backward. It will make the time go by faster!

Marketing

Carson Wealth

DECEMBER 10, 2024

You could give the rare artwork your grandmother left you to a museum, donate your year-end bonus to the food bank for Christmas meals, or help with the costs of a fundraising event to save local wetlands, for example. A foundation can be passed down from generation to generation and involves any number of family members.

Taxes

Trade Brains

JUNE 26, 2025

IRCTC, an extension of Indian Railways, is responsible for upgrading, professionalizing, and managing the food and hospitality services at train stations, on trains, and at other locations. Its trade name is Dailyraven Technologies Private Limited, and its SEBI-registered research analyst registration number is INH000015729.

Insurance

Carson Wealth

JULY 21, 2025

Core inflation, excluding food and energy prices, rose just 0.2% These aren’t particularly concerning inflation numbers, at least as far as the Fed is concerned. Tariff Impact Shows Up If you want to look for the impact of tariffs, core goods (outside of food and energy) would be the place. in June and is also up just 2.4%

Marketing

The Big Picture

MARCH 17, 2025

So number one on the New York Times list? 00:22:23 [Speaker Changed] Not number one, but it was in the top f whatever it made the list. Time, it, it seemed like a big number at the time, 787 billion. And the, the part of the story that we haven’t mentioned, of course, is the war and ener the role of energy in food.

Economy

The Big Picture

JUNE 16, 2025

There are a number of people who have said, and I’ve been swayed in this direction, Hey, when you’re 20, 25 years old and you don’t need this money for 30, 40, 50 years, do you really need bonds to offset the volatility of equities? Some crazy number writing a monthly column for them. You can’t execute.

Math

The Big Picture

MAY 13, 2025

So I had oversight of our 420 plus the number’s probably even greater now, first mutual funds and increasingly ETFs. 00:08:27 [Speaker Changed] And, and a lot of people don’t realize because, you know, Vanguard and BlackRock are synonymous with broad indexing, but am I getting the numbers right? It’s always a blast.

Clients

The Better Letter

MARCH 27, 2025

miles per hour over the last 20 years, and the number of pitches over 100 miles per hour increased from 214 in 2008 to more than 3,300 in 2024. Best-selling fast food items. Faster fast food. Praise, condemnation, and feedback are always welcome. The average 4-seam fastball speed increased from 91.9 miles per hour to 94.3

Accounting

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Food for Thought… Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” The return and principal value of investments will fluctuate as market conditions change. When sold, investments may be worth more or less than their original cost. Companies may reschedule when they report earnings without notice.

Marketing

Mr. Money Mustache

JUNE 13, 2025

Donald Trump is throwing around random, extremely high tariff numbers as threats, then walking them back and changing them on an almost daily basis. They almost always cause unexpected damage, decrease overall employment and slow down an economy, but sometimes (like for food security or national defense) those costs are worth paying.

Taxes