Bond ETFs: Your Tax Bracket Decides the Winner Between AGG and MUB
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AGG carries a slightly lower expense ratio and offers a higher yield than MUB.
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AGG has seen stronger 1-year returns but experienced a deeper five-year drawdown.
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Both funds target different market segments, with AGG covering the entire U.S.
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Read MoreHere's the Average American's Social Security Benefit in 2026
We now have some official numbers after the 2026 COLA went into effect.
Social Security recipients just got a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2026, and we’ve just received new data from the Social Security Administration. In this video, I’ll break down the average Social Security benefits in 2026 for different types of beneficiaries.
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Read MoreIs Warren Buffett’s 1994 Berkshire Hathaway Prediction Finally Coming True? He Warns ‘A Fat Wallet is the Enemy of Superior Investment Results’
Bottom Line Up Front: Warren Buffett has long predicted that they’re getting too big to see the sizeable returns they saw for the first many years of Berkshire Hathaway’s (BRK.A) (BRK.B) lifetime, but it never came to fruition. But with over $300 billion in cash, and few options left to buy “sensible prices of businesses that have good underlying economics and are run by honest and able people” at scale,
Is the supreme court ready to stand up to Trump over Federal Reserve attack?
Donald Trump has tried his usual tactics when it comes to getting the US Federal Reserve to lower interest rates: bully when persuasion doesn’t work, and then fire when bullying doesn’t work.
In an unprecedented assault on the central bank, the president has called the Fed chair, Jerome Powell,
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Read MoreWarren Buffett Explains Why Investors Should Favor 'Approximately Right' Over Precise Mistakes
Key Takeaways
- Warren Buffett has said, “It’s better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.”
- He means that investors often struggle because they prefer mathematical precision to sound judgment.
- The real challenge is maintaining simplicity and common sense amid complexity.
Buffett has a talent for distilling important financial concepts down to one memorable sentence.
Read MoreThe Burst
Ominous Signal Strikes for First Time in 90 Years
If one key indicator is to be trusted, the U.S. economy may be headed either for choppy waters or over a cliff, and the fallout for stocks may be enormous.
While there is no doubt that the forces of money supply creation and consequently inflation drive nominal prices higher over the long-term, the short-term is less easy to forecast with the same degree of accuracy.
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Read MoreThe Ivy
1 Extraordinary Stock Won Over Buffett and Cathie Wood
Stock market observers would be hard-pressed to find two major investors more different than Warren Buffett and Cathie Wood. Buffett’s careful, value-driven approach to investing has allowed his Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate to become the first $1 trillion company outside of the tech sector. Wood’s ARK funds, meanwhile, focus on extremely high-growth tech companies that often have yet to turn a profit.
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Read MoreThe Spotlight
Is Buffett Going All in on His Favorite Stock?
In 2022, Warren Buffett has been all over the headlines. Whether it’s Apple, Occidental Petroleum, or Chevron, the Oracle of Omaha has added millions of shares to his portfolio, which is now worth over $300 billion.
This year’s bear market decline has allowed Buffett to buy shares at a significant discount,
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