Warren Buffett earned $704 million in dividends in 2021. His maximum tax rate on that income? Just 20%. Meanwhile, a corporate executive earning $24.8 million in salary gets taxed at 37%. Almost double the rate - on a fraction of the money. That's not an accident. The U.S. tax code is designed to benefit investors. […]
You wouldn't buy a house without looking at the inspection report. So why would you buy a stock without reading the company's balance sheet? A balance sheet is one of three major financial statements every public company is required to publish. It tells you what a company owns, what it owes, and what's left over […]
You've decided you want to start investing. You open your phone, download an app, and suddenly you're staring at a screen full of ticker symbols, charts, and green and red numbers. But before any of that happens, there's one thing standing between you and the stock market: a stock broker. So what exactly is a […]
You check your portfolio one morning and see red everywhere. One of your stocks is down 10%. Another is down 15%. Your portfolio value just dropped thousands of dollars in a single day. That feeling in your stomach? That's volatility. It's completely normal. The most volatile stocks in the market can swing 5%, 10%, even […]
Investing is not a one size fits all approach. Some investors prefer a more active approach - that means choosing individual stocks, researching companies, and doing lots of financial analysis. Other investors like a passive style - where you choose funds and invest on autopilot for the long term. ETFs and mutual funds are two […]
Everyone with an internet connection is using AI to better their business or research a new sour dough recipe. But AI has an energy problem. A single ChatGPT query uses about 2.9 watt-hours of energy - roughly 10 times what a Google search takes. Now multiply that by hundreds of millions of users, and you […]
You just opened your first brokerage account and you’re ready to buy a stock. You type in "Apple" and suddenly see four letters staring back at you: AAPL. That's Apple's stock symbol - and no matter what stock you search, every one is going to have a stock symbol. Stock symbols are unique to each […]
Everyone knows AI needs chips. For a while, investment dollars flowed into the companies designing processors - these are the chips that do the "thinking." But every time you ask ChatGPT to make you a new recipe or use an AI system for anything, one thing is crucial: Memory. Why? Imagine AI is the smartest […]
When you get your first, “real” job, it often comes with your first “real” paycheck. You finally start thinking about investing - and the first thing that usually comes up is a 401k. A 401k is an employer sponsored retirement account - you invest part of your paycheck and your employer usually matches it. Most […]
Most investors hear the word "options" and picture a Wall Street trader screaming into a phone. The reality is a lot less dramatic - and a lot more useful. Options are simply contracts that give you the right to buy or sell a stock at a specific price before a specific date. It’s that simple. […]
