Tag: Stock Market

Got $100,000 to Invest? History Says Waiting Usually Costs You
Investing • October 2, 2026

Got $100,000 to Invest? History Says Waiting Usually Costs You

Imagine $100,000 suddenly lands in your bank account. Maybe it is an inheritance. Maybe you sold a business, received a large bonus or finally moved money out of an asset you had held for years. Whatever the source, the problem is the same: you have cash that you intend to invest, but putting all of […]

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September Was Basically Two Stock Markets Wearing One Trench Coat
Investing • October 1, 2026

September Was Basically Two Stock Markets Wearing One Trench Coat

September was a good month for the stock market. September was also a terrible month for the stock market. Both statements can be defended with perfectly respectable numbers. The Nasdaq Composite gained about 1.9% during the month, extending the extraordinary run of technology and AI-linked stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average went in the opposite […]

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The Worst Market Timer Ever Still Retired a Millionaire
How-to • September 26, 2026

The Worst Market Timer Ever Still Retired a Millionaire

Imagine spending your entire investing life making almost perfectly terrible decisions. You buy stocks just before the 1973–74 bear market. You return immediately before Black Monday in 1987. Then you pile in at the peak of the dot-com bubble and, for your grand finale, invest just before the global financial crisis. That is essentially the […]

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The Dot-Com Bubble: Who Died, Who Won, and Could It Happen Again?
Finance • September 5, 2026

The Dot-Com Bubble: Who Died, Who Won, and Could It Happen Again?

The dot-com bubble is usually remembered as a story about stupidity. Investors throwing money at companies with no profits. Startups adding “.com” to their names. Twenty-somethings becoming paper millionaires. Pets.com spending heavily to sell pet food online. Venture capital chasing almost anything connected to the internet. Then, in 2000, gravity returned. But that version of […]

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The Week Nvidia Delivered the Receipts and the Fed Raised the Difficulty
Market Pulse • August 30, 2026

The Week Nvidia Delivered the Receipts and the Fed Raised the Difficulty

Last week, the market demanded receipts. This week, it got them. Nvidia delivered another absurd quarter, Bitcoin pushed through $80,000, CrowdStrike reminded Wall Street that AI can create software revenue as well as GPU bills, and the major US indices managed to finish higher. For about five minutes, everything looked beautifully simple. Then Kevin Warsh […]

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The Week the Market Stopped Buying the Story
Market Pulse • August 24, 2026

The Week the Market Stopped Buying the Story

Last week, the market did not collapse. It did something more interesting. It began separating stories from evidence. The major US indices ended the week lower as rising long-term bond yields reminded investors that capital still has a price. The S&P 500 lost around 2%, the Dow fell roughly 3% and the Nasdaq declined about […]

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