College rankings aren’t what they appear. This isn’t saying, top-ranked schools don’t provide great education and terrific networking experiences leading to well-paying jobs. These facts are indisputable. The question becomes at what price do the select few benefit to the detriment of everybody else. The U.S. News Best Colleges rankings possess unhealthy monopoly-like power over…

Retirees need to be active investors. Nothing to do with stock picking. Grandpa shouldn’t be watching TikTok “investment” videos and buying AMC stock or Crypto Currency on margin. Index funds are still the best bet for young and old investors. My colleague, Ben Carlson, reinforces this concept. “The biggest threat to long-term returns is your…

Young Investors need a clubhouse to call their own. No parents allowed. They found it in trading platforms like Coinbase and Robinhood. Wallstreetbets also fits the bill. Supply usually catches up to demand. Generation gaps are nothing new. They aren’t as common regarding investing. No more. In 1981, MTV blazed onto the scene. The world…

Compounding plays an outsized role in natural selection. Financial tortoises smoke hyper-trading investor hares. Only the survivors emerge victorious under the brutal Darwinian conditions of the financial markets. Staying the course and letting compounding do its thing offers the best chance for continuance. Proof of concept is found in long-distance races between two-legged humans and…