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 house. For years, San Francisco tech workers treated that gap as temporary…
Americans saving for retirement focus on ensuring their nest eggs will sustain the lifestyles they hope to enjoy once their working years are behind them. That desire to make the most of every dollar — across retirement accounts, including 401(k)s and Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) — …
Big banks are strange companies to own. From the outside, they look slow and lumbering. From the inside, they are a single bad weekend away from a phone call to the Treasury Department. That tension is what makes investing in them so hard. It is also the whole reason an unglamorous piece of …
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO – JUNE 11: Detailed view of the 2026 World Cup trophy during the unveiling of the countdown clock 1 year ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup at General Prim on June 11, 2025 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Cristopher Rogel Blanquet/Getty Images)Getty Images The 2026 FIFA World Cup — opening…
Cisco Systems (CSCO) climbed 25% in the past week as investors woke up to a simple shift. AI is driving a multibillion-dollar rebuild of the networks that power modern computing, and Cisco sits squarely in that spend cycle. That shift could ripple across the broader tech industry…
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – DECEMBER 3: In this handout image suppled by COP28, Joseph Vipond from the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment at the Blue Zone during the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 at Expo City Dubai on December 3, 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The COP28, which is running from…
ToplineGold and silver prices are approaching their highest levels in months, a surge some analysts have attributed to falling oil prices, a softening dollar and hopes the United States and Iran will strike a deal to end the war. Silver prices surged early Thursday. (Photo by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)NurPhoto via Getty ImagesKey FactsThe…
Sometimes the hardest part of investing isn’t buying. It’s not the patience asked of you before the market rewards your move. It’s not even what to invest in, as you may think. It’s watching something you sold keep going up to the moon without you. And now you can only stay out and be a…
Some of the best investing returns happen quietly, after the headlines have moved on. The patient buyers, not the loud ones, tend to win in the end. That has been the Warren Buffett playbook for six decades. Avoid the buzz, find the boring cash machines, and let compounding do the talking…
There is an old line I picked up early in covering Detroit: never bet against the American consumer’s love of trucks. For the past three years, automakers tried anyway. They poured tens of billions of dollars into electric vehicle factories, lithium supply deals, and battery joint ventures…





