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12 Nov 2025

This is Historic: Retail investors own the risk.

Households are holding a record 52% in equities, up from 25% after 2008. That’s above every cycle before it. Source: Goldman Sachs, zerohedge

27 Oct 2025

The "K-shaped" economy in one chart...

The top 10% of American households own 87% of all stocks, nearly 85% of all private businesses and 44% of Real Estate Another way of looking at this: The bottom 90% increasingly don’t matter in official economic data Source: Amy Nixon @texasrunnerDFW

20 Oct 2025

Retail investors bought nearly $2 BILLION of US stocks on Friday, Oct 10, following the market pullback.

This marks the BIGGEST buying day since the April 2025 sell-off and one of the largest on record. Mom-and-pop investors are still buying the dip. Source: Global Markets Investor, Vanda

13 Oct 2025

Leveraged ETFs now have almost $160 Billion in assets, a new all-time high 🚨🚨

Source: Barchart

3 Oct 2025

Warren Buffett's 6 rules for money

Source: Investment Books (Dhaval) @InvestmentBook1

3 Oct 2025

Warren Buffett's Financial Statement Checklist

Source: Compounding Dividends @CompoundingW on X

3 Oct 2025

What moves stock prices:

Source: Brian Feroldi

25 Sep 2025

Are you waiting for a Bear Market to invest?

This is a great idea in theory, but historically only 20% of future Bear Markets brought prices below prevailing levels. Source: Charlie Bilello

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