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Why Can’t the Stock Market Grow at 15% Forever?
Here’s a question we got in the Animal Spirits inbox this week: They always say the stock market has returned...
This Company Saved $500 Million By Replacing Call Centers with AI
I had to get my car serviced a few weeks ago. So I called the local dealership to set up...
The Best Time to Invest
A reader asks: Is it a good thing or bad thing if someone started investing in that lost decade? This...
Is 2025 Really the Year of Agentic AI?
In January, I wrote that AI agents were about to be the next big thing for artificial intelligence. That article included a...
The Ovarian Lottery – A Wealth of Common Sense
At the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting in 1997, Warren Buffett laid out the following scenario: Imagine you’ve been granted the...
The Double-Digit Decades – A Wealth of Common Sense
Posted July 20, 2025 by Ben Carlson The 1980s and 1990s bull market was an all-timer, perhaps the greatest of...
What Stops This Train? – A Wealth of Common Sense
As a middle-aged guy, I’m a sucker for the real estate section in The Wall Street Journal. They had a...
A $14 Trillion Wall Street Firm Just Changed Everything for Ethereum
Back in 2022, I put out a video where I argued Ethereum wasn’t just another cryptocurrency… It was starting to look like...
CFA or CFP? – A Wealth of Common Sense
A reader asks: I’m in my last year studying financial econ and looking to get into advising or wealth management....
Will Q-Day Destroy Bitcoin? – Banyan Hill Publishing
A few months ago, I suggested that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang might have to eat his words after he downplayed the progress of quantum...
20 Questions – A Wealth of Common Sense
Some questions that are rattling around in my head along with some quips, answers and guesses. 1. What seems obvious...
Will the Future of Public Safety Be Powered by AI?
One of our Baltimore analysts is vacationing in Northern California this week, near the town of Angels Camp in Calaveras...
