When War Is the Trade, “Insider Trading” Becomes Essential
For an economy to grow, it’s necessary that capital reaches its highest perceived use as quickly as possible. From this seemingly trite statement of the obvious we can conclude that information bottled up saps economic vitality.
If we don’t know things, our capital allocations are logically going to be different relative to what they would be if we do know things.
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Read MoreThere Are Some Major Changes to Social Security You Need to Know About in May
Social Security is a dynamic program, delivering benefits to roughly 70 million people annually — and not just retirees, either. It also supports millions of qualifying people with disabilities and survivors of workers. Altogether, it pays out more than $1.5 trillion each year — and those dollars help many people get by.
Thus,
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Experts sound alarm as US national debt tops GDP for first time since WWII
The milestone marks a symbolic and economic threshold, with federal debt now roughly twice its historical average relative to the size of the economy. Outside of a brief distortion early in the COVID-19 pandemic — when output collapsed sharply — the United States has not ended a fiscal year with debt above 100% of GDP since 1946.
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Read MoreBerkshire Hathaway's first Q&A without Warren Buffett opened with a question from a deepfake Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett is no longer the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, but he’s still at its annual conference, in both physical and digital form.
For years at Berkshire meetings, Buffett held lengthy question-and-answer sessions with the company’s shareholders,
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Forget Nvidia, This Under-the-Radar Chip Stock Might Have More Upside
Chances are, you’ve never walked into a store and bought something with the ASML logo on it but almost every smartphone, tablet, or electric vehicle in your life probably wouldn’t exist without ASML’s technology humming away in the background.
This Dutch powerhouse doesn’t make chips, it makes the machines that make the chips.
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Could a Consumer Bull Market Supercharge Shopify?
The SPDR S&P Retail ETF is up about 25% since April 1, putting it within reach of its all-time high from late 2021. That kind of pop isn’t happening in isolation.
Consumer sentiment, which had been stuck near recessionary levels for most of 2022–2023, has recovered to a three-year high in 2025, according to the University of Michigan’s surveys.
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Palantir’s Path to $10 Billion: Can This AI Giant Keep Growing?
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has emerged from a growth slowdown into a phase of reaccelerating revenue and improving profitability in 2024-2025. After a modest ~17% revenue growth in 2023, Palantir’s top-line expanded by 29% in 2024 to $2.87 billion, buoyed by rising demand for its data analytics and AI platforms.
The company also achieved GAAP profitability,
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