One of the things that gives me great comfort about the health of the U.S. economy is our historically low household leverage (liabilities to net worth). According to the Federal Reserve Board, household leverage is now at an 80-year low—a…

A typical supercommuter spends 90 minutes or more one way commuting to work or school. As the cost of living continues to outpace wage growth, supercommuting is growing in popularity. According to a recent U.S. Census Bureau report, an…

On July 3, the House narrowly passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) with a 218–214 vote. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the bill will add an estimated $3.3 trillion to the budget deficit over…

If you became a newly minted millionaire, where would you migrate to? Due to inertia, I bet most of you would stay right where you are. A lot of us are afraid of change, which is why we stay at jobs we hate and suffer through broken marriages for too…

Ever since I left my day job in 2012, I’ve used a form of the dumbbell investing strategy to grow my wealth while protecting against large losses. It’s a framework that’s helped me stay invested during uncertain times—especially when I felt the urge…

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On todays' show we discuss faster recoveries in the stock market, the potential for an even longer bull market, pros and cons of deregulation, zooming out on the dollar, why taxes never rise, a weak jobs market for college grads, life in 1776, making …

There has never been a better time to be an individual investor than right now. The post The Future of Investment Management is the Paradox of Choice appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...

In this episode of Talk Your Book, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson sit down with the team behind CAIE – the Calamos Autocallable Income ETF, a first-of-its-kind fund bringing institutional-style structured notes to the ETF world. They explore what makes…

Nvidia and Microsoft have been swapping places for the most valuable company in the world for about a year now.

Private debt investing can be an excellent way to generate passive income, offering higher yields than traditional bonds or dividend stocks. However, higher returns come with more risk, and investors […]

If you’ve been sitting on the sidelines, waiting for the right time to invest in real estate again, this is your signal: The buyer’s market has arrived. After years of […]

Welcome to another Rookie Reply, where Ashley and Tony answer questions from the BiggerPockets Forums and Real Estate Rookie Facebook group. This time, we’re covering questions like: How to approach […]

The golden age of real estate investing is over, and there’s a good chance it isn’t coming back (for a while, at least). We have to admit it—real estate deals […]

When most investors analyze a deal, they zoom in on the property. They focus on purchase price, cap rate, rent comps, and maybe a few big-picture stats about the city.  […]