Talk Your Book: International Stocks, So Hot Right Now
Posted April 7, 2025 by Ben Carlson Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by Schafer Cullen:...
Talk Your Book: International Stocks, So Hot Right Now
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How Bad Could This Get?
How Bad Could This Get?
The S&P 500 is approaching bear market territory and it happened in a hurry: This drawdown...
A Short History of Tariffs
A Short History of Tariffs
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Presidential Partisan Portfolios – A Wealth of Common Sense
Presidential Partisan Portfolios – A Wealth of Common Sense
A reader asks: There has been a clear distinction in recent years in sentiment data where...
Animal Spirits: Ben’s Bearish – A Wealth of Common Sense
Animal Spirits: Ben’s Bearish – A Wealth of Common Sense
This content, which contains security-related opinions and/or information, is provided for...
The Middle Class, The Top 10% and the Bottom 50%
The Middle Class, The Top 10% and the Bottom 50%
Here’s a crazy stat from Bloomberg: Half of American households account for 97.5% of the wealth...
Talk Your Book: Floating Rate Income
Talk Your Book: Floating Rate Income
Posted March 31, 2025 by Ben Carlson Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by VanEck: See...
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Would $2M at 23 Make You “Set for Life”?
A few weeks ago someone tweeted out a video of Coleman Hawkins’, the star forward for the...
The 20% Rule – A Wealth of Common Sense
The 20% Rule – A Wealth of Common Sense
I get a lot of emails from young people in the finance world asking for career advice. Career...
The Wealth Effect – A Wealth of Common Sense
The Wealth Effect – A Wealth of Common Sense
The Economist has a good piece about the growing importance of the stock market on household...
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