Why Do Long-Term Rates Keep Going Higher? If you are house shopping, you’ve asked this question lately. You’ve probably got a mortgage in the 3% range, and because rates are so much higher right now, you might almost feel stuck. Even to make a move to comparable house could cost you way more on your […]
Read More What Are Stablecoins and Will They Put Banks Out of Business – 1-Year Later About a year ago, the Genius act passed. As a result, I did a special episode with the title, “What Are Stablecoins and Will They Put Banks Out of Business.” Well, we are still here, but we have some pending legislation […]
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Why Should you Care about a New Fed Chair? There’s a new sheriff in town. By Sheriff, I mean a new Chair at the Federal Reserve. What is interesting is that the old sheriff is still in town as well. And the old sheriff is going to be consulting with the new sheriff to make […]
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What Are Trump Accounts and How Do They Work? You may have heard about Trump accounts. Up until the last couple of weeks, the details have been murky. We knew they were coming and knew some general traits about them but didn’t really understand how they would work. Well, that’s changed, because now they are […]
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How to Get More of the Right Things Done Have you had your summer vacation yet? Do you ever spend any part of vacation thinking about how you are doing in life? Some questions you might ask are: Are we too busy? How can we simplify? How can we get more done? Maybe you don’t […]
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Should AI Make Decisions for You? If you remember a couple of months ago, I told you that we were having a March Madness bracket competition in our office. Just for fun, we prompted an AI model to make some picks to see how it would do compared to the humans in the office. We […]
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Interest Rates May Surprise You This Year. When we began the year 2026, the Fed Funds Futures Market expected two or three rate cuts this year. Those expectations have changed. Fed Funds Futures Market today are pricing in a 29% chance for fed hikes at the September meeting and 40% by the October meeting, and […]
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Why is the price of gas going up if the U.S. is energy independent? A few episodes ago I talked to you about the impact of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and that extended closure had a good chance of leading to $4 gas. Well, we’ve arrived at $4 gas. But you may […]
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What is a Private Credit Crisis? You may have heard this phrase in the news lately and you might wonder “what is private credit, why are they in a crisis, and why should I care?” That’s exactly what we will answer in today’s episode. I’m going to start with why you should care. First of […]
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What does March Madness Have to Do with Your Financial Decision-Making? How people make predictions, assumptions and decisions is a fascinating thing to study. In particular, how people make financial predictions, assumptions and decisions is even more fascinating and I want to share some observations along those lines with you in today’s episode. In order […]
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