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09/13/2026

“You just don’t work hard enough.”

Sir, you bought a four bedroom for 38k in 1978

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09/12/2026

At the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Trump said he would issue a $5,000 “dividend” to every adult US citizen if Republicans keep both the House and the Senate in November. He compared it to a company paying out cash to its shareholders, and said the money would have to be spent inside the US.

Paying every adult $5,000 would cost more than $1.2 trillion, more than the Covid-era stimulus packages that economists blame for making inflation worse. US debt crossed $40 trillion for the first time last month.

A payment like this would also need approval from Congress, and it isn’t something a president can order on his own. JD Vance said some of the funding would come from tariff revenue, though the $2,000 tariff dividend promised last November never arrived.

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Gold got its reputation the boring way: scarce, portable, and everyone agrees it’s worth something.Peter Levin, founder ...
09/11/2026

Gold got its reputation the boring way: scarce, portable, and everyone agrees it’s worth something.

Peter Levin, founder of Griffin Gaming Partners, says Pokémon cards check all three boxes. He owns more than 500,000 of them and says that if the financial system collapsed tomorrow, cards would function as the global currency. He also claims they’ve outperformed the S&P 500 by over 3,000%.

It sounds ridiculous until you remember that money only works because we all decided it does.

What would you actually trade with if the dollar stopped meaning anything?

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The new iPhone is reportedly pushing toward the $2,000 mark, and people have… thoughts. With consumers already feeling s...
09/10/2026

The new iPhone is reportedly pushing toward the $2,000 mark, and people have… thoughts.

With consumers already feeling squeezed by higher prices on everything from groceries to housing, dropping $2K on a phone is starting to feel like a luxury purchase, not a regular upgrade. Some people say the new features make it worth it, while others are asking the bigger question: who is actually budgeting for a $2,000 phone right now?

Would you spend $2K on the newest iPhone?

Getting paid to stay home with your kid? The Trump administration is drafting a rule that would make it possible — and i...
09/10/2026

Getting paid to stay home with your kid? The Trump administration is drafting a rule that would make it possible — and it’s splitting the right.

Under the draft, married couples could tap the Child Care and Development Fund, the federal childcare subsidy pool, to receive assistance for caring for their own children at home.

The requirements as written: be married, have one spouse working at least 35 hours a week, have the other at home with the child, and meet your state’s income limits.

That $9,000 figure making the rounds isn’t guaranteed — it’s the average value of CCDF assistance, and real amounts vary by state rules, family income, and a child’s age. Conservative commentators are split, with some calling it wealth redistribution from dual-income families and others arguing parents who provide care themselves shouldn’t be shut out of a subsidy that already funds daycare.

Nike is out of the S&P 100.S&P Dow Jones Indices confirmed the sportswear giant will be removed from the index before th...
09/08/2026

Nike is out of the S&P 100.

S&P Dow Jones Indices confirmed the sportswear giant will be removed from the index before the market opens on September 21, ending a nearly 18-year run. Shares closed at $38.40 on September 4, their lowest level in about 12 years and roughly 78% below the 2021 peak. Market value has dropped from around $280 billion to about $57 billion.

The slide traces back to an aggressive direct-to-consumer push that damaged wholesale relationships, slower product innovation, and an 11% revenue decline in Greater China. Fiscal 2026 revenue landed at $46.4 billion, down about 2%.

Nike stays in the S&P 500 and the Dow. Colgate-Palmolive, Honeywell Aerospace and Simon Property Group are also leaving the index. All four replacements come from tech: Dell, Palo Alto Networks, Arista Networks and SanDisk.

The index isn’t the story. What replaced Nike is.

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Americans are Googling “help with mortgage” at levels we haven’t seen since the 2008 housing crisis 👀 And while that doe...
09/08/2026

Americans are Googling “help with mortgage” at levels we haven’t seen since the 2008 housing crisis 👀 And while that doesn’t mean we’re headed for another 2008, it IS a pretty loud signal that homeowners are feeling the squeeze. Mortgage rates, insurance, property taxes, and the overall cost of living are making housing harder to afford — so this is definitely a number worth watching

Food, housing and wages have all climbed since 1996. Only one of them was supposed to make you feel richer.Groceries, re...
09/06/2026

Food, housing and wages have all climbed since 1996. Only one of them was supposed to make you feel richer.

Groceries, rent and utilities have all moved in the same direction for three decades, and paychecks technically grew too. But the math that matters is what’s left after the essentials, and for most households that number has barely budged.

That’s the gap nobody puts on a chart: rising wages on paper, flat purchasing power in practice. It’s why “the economy is fine” and “I can’t afford anything” are both true at the same time.

The question isn’t whether your pay went up. It’s whether it went up faster than the things you can’t skip, and for most people it didn’t.

09/05/2026

Masayoshi Son sold 4.9% of Nvidia in 2019 for about $3 billion.
That stake is worth $210 billion today.
He calls it “the fish that got away.”

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