Change "Silicon Valley Bank" to "Kansas Farmers Bank". Replace "tech startups" with "farmers". Replace "MBS" with "farm loans". Do you feel different? If you were calling for "let them fail" are you now screaming "save them?!" Or vice versa. Would any of the tech elite

Let’s talk March Madness brackets Bill Watts Tim Rostan. Victor Reklaitis and other MarketWatch friends. At what point do I need to get rational about how deep Purdue can go?

“Being different, it made me find myself. It made me embrace who I am because I can’t be like everyone else.” I profiled Purdue big man Zach Edey The Ringer. A story about drive, work ethic, being 'the outsider,' and the gift of embracing who you are: theringer.com/2023/3/15/2364…

What's the biggest Mississippi city? Chicago! Why? Because of an ice age water stream If you understand this, you can understand why Chicago is so huge today And more importantly, why some cities thrive while others don't:

They say that 70% of families lose their wealth by the 2nd generation and 90% lose it by the 3rd generation. My latest on how to build generational wealth, how it's destroyed, and the problems that arise from obtaining it in the first place: ofdollarsanddata.com/generational-w…

Guess middle-class and wealthy parents are absolved of any responsibility? Opinion | Colleges fail at giving students work ethic needed for workplace washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

Remember the chip shortage that wrecked global car production? Well last month, the US not only built more vehicles than any month since the start of the chip shortage in 2021, but built more vehicles than any month in 2019!

Is Mississippi Really as Poor as Britain? - The Atlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Wow. “The average starter at a big-time football program now takes in about $103,000 a year, according to Opendorse, a company that processes payments to the players for the collectives.” nytimes.com/2023/10/21/us/…

Navigating "corporate speak" isn't easy. Here's a helpful guide I put together: "Let me check with my team" = No "Possibly" = No "On my roadmap" = Not happening "This will be done in Q4" = This will be done in Q2 next year "Disagree and commit" = I hate you "Per my last

A few 🚩for this poll: It has no registered or likely voter screeners, yet asks about 2024 vote I have no clue what “random telephone lists” are “Complex weighting techniques” is suspiciously vague “Weighting variables may include…” you either weighted on them or you didn’t

It's official: US crude oil production has completely recovered from the pandemic and hit a new record high in August!

With several data releases this week, we finally have GDP numbers for many G7 members through Q3 Here's how Real GDP has changed, compared to just before the pandemic: 🇺🇸 +8.0% 🇨🇦 +3.9% (through Q2) 🇮🇹 +2.7% 🇬🇧 +1.8% (through Q2) 🇫🇷 +1.4% 🇩🇪 +0.6% 🇯🇵 +0.2% (through Q2)

Scoop: ex The Wall Street Journal editor Matt Murray advising investment fund that will hire reporters to do investigative work that will then be used to first trade and then publish stories related to the trade on a separate ad-free online platform with no paywall. (1/2) ft.com/content/8550d1…

They tried that with Investment Bankers.....who were effectively "journalists". and story tellers....didn't end very well.....circa 2000 and the Telecom dump.....hiding behind publicly available information won't save anyone's skin

Blunt. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Here's real GDP growth by county since the pandemic—I love how clearly you can see the strong growth spread all across Florida, Idaho, and Utah, plus the booms in the metro areas around Nashville, Austin, Atlanta, and the Bay Area.

Many retirees lament funding tax-deductible retirement accounts because they now face steep tax bills. But instead, they ought to be cheering—for four reasons. HumbleDollar humbledollar.com/2024/01/called…