Every generation of workers hears that a machine is coming for its job. Sometimes the machine arrives. More often it just reshuffles the work, moving people from one task to another without the dramatic reckoning…
Most people never think about their air conditioner until the day it stops blowing cold. A working AC is invisible. It hums in a closet or sits in a side yard, doing its job in…
Investors holding large positions in appreciated securities face a recurring problem each tax season. Federal and state payment deadlines often coincide with the same holdings being central to a long-term portfolio plan. Liquidating appreciated holdings…
Cathie Wood has never been shy about making big bets on names that most of Wall Street hasn’t fully figured out yet. According to data from StockCircle: Wood’s firm, ARK Invest, first bought Roku back…
Money you cannot spend is a strange kind of rich. On paper, a person can be worth millions and still not have a dollar to fix the roof, pay a contractor, or close on a…
Walking away from a career in your late 50s or early 60s sounds liberating, but the financial gap between your last paycheck and full access to retirement benefits is wider than most workers expect. A…
Micron Technology (MU) is having the kind of rally that can shift the perception of an entire industry on Wall Street. The memory-chip maker briefly topped the $1 trillion market value threshold for the first…
A particular moment in markets does not happen often. It is when a Wall Street firm that called a stock wrong publicly admits it, in plain language, in a research note. Morgan Stanley just had…
We used to call it word of mouth, and it was organic. I would see a movie, try a new restaurant, or buy a new product, then tell my friends about it. If I liked…
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