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If you asked the average investor to name the most iron rule of investing, they’d likely say: “Stocks outperform bonds.” And yes, over the long haul, that’s been true. Since 1900 US stocks have returned 9.9% and 10-year US government bonds about 4.4%, a mile-wide gap. But the key question most folks never ask is… […]
A reader asks: How do young people get rich besides crypto? Young people becoming fabulously wealthy is still a relatively new phenomenon. Jerry Seinfeld once said, “The eighties was the first time that young guys could make a lot of money fast. Never existed before. Rich guys were Aristotle Onassis, Andrew Carnegie, shipping, iron. You […]
Key Takeaways The US housing finance regulator wants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to draft plans that treat crypto as part of a borrower’s assets for mortgage review. Crypto holdings can be counted directly in mortgage underwriting if the proposals are approved. Share this article The US Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has directed mortgage […]
In the summer of 2018, more than four decades after its founding, Apple (AAPL 0.82%) became the first publicly traded stock to reach a $1 trillion market cap. Today, many companies have surpassed this valuation threshold. Some are now worth several trillion dollars. Still, no company has ever reached the $10 trillion mark. But the […]
Key Takeaways Metaplanet raised $517 million in a single day to acquire more Bitcoin. The firm’s strategy mirrors Strategy’s corporate investment in Bitcoin as a treasury asset. Share this article Japanese investment firm Metaplanet announced Wednesday that it had raised $517 million to purchase additional Bitcoin, following a corporate strategy similar to Strategy’s approach to […]
Representatives from multiple universities met with the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Crypto Task Force on June 23 to discuss a staking rulebook. The meeting included representatives from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, the University of Chicago Law School, and venture firm Placeholder. According to the logs, […]
I have a friend who is a tax consultant who works with a number of successful real estate investors. He shared with me the secret to successful real estate investing based on his experience with these clients — you don’t sell. And the reason these investors don’t sell very often is because they hate the […]
The growth investor did a lot of shopping on Monday. Cathie Wood kicked off the new trading week with one of her busiest shopping days of 2025. The CEO, co-founder, and ace stock picker at Ark Invest added to 15 of her existing stakes — including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD 1.17%), Shopify (SHOP 3.42%), and […]
Telegram-based dark markets rapidly filled the gap left by Huione Guarantee after the $27 billion marketplace disappeared on May 13, according to a June 23 Elliptic report. Elliptic noted that Telegram banned thousands of Huione Guarantee channels and usernames once researchers traced billions of USDT-denominated sales to pig-butchering scams. However, data shows that merchants immediately […]
