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Why I’m Not Worried About a Weaker Dollar
The dollar continues falling, now down around 11% from January 2025 levels: This is a big move by currency standards,...
The Air Taxi Runway Just Got Shorter
Last May, I wrote about a $1.5 trillion transportation revolution that was ready to take off. The idea that electric air...
Social Security FAQ – A Wealth of Common Sense
Social Security is the most important retirement plan ever created in the United States. Around 70 million Americans receive Social...
The NYSE Just Took a Big Step Toward Tokenization
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has been around long enough to have seen every version of modern finance. It...
Housing Price Inflation – A Wealth of Common Sense
I came across two new tools for looking at the historical inflation of the various components that make up the...
Chart of the Week: Two Superpowers, Two Energy Futures
This week, instead of a single chart, I’m sharing two charts that come from a New York Times analysis I bookmarked months...
Animal Spirits: Hi-Yo Silver! – A Wealth of Common Sense
Posted January 28, 2026 by Ben Carlson Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by Invesco: Today’s show is sponsored...
Market Volatility = Best Time to Be a Trader
It’s already the last week of January. Almost one month down. Eleven to go. And if this first month is...
Talk Your Book: How to Fix the Plumbing of the Financial System
Posted January 26, 2026 by Ben Carlson Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by Chainlink: See here for more...
Are You Addicted To Wall Street’s Favorite Drug?
7 out of 10 Americans are addicted to a drug they don’t even know they’re taking. In a Gallup survey,...
Earnings vs. the Stock Market
I shared this chart recently about the fundamental breakdown of S&P 500 returns in 2025: The fact that the dividend...
A Fed Shakeup Could Change How Wall Street Sees Bitcoin
Fed Chair Jerome Powell doesn’t look untouchable anymore. And I don’t say that lightly. Fed chairs usually weather political storms...
