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Remember when your portfolio was basically printing money? Yeah, those days might be numbered. Vanguard just dropped their annual "let's be realistic about the future" report, and spoiler alert: they're not exactly bullish on U.S. stocks for the next decade. Here's the tea: while your Total Stock Market Index has been delivering a sweet 12% annual return over the past 10 years (making everyone feel like Warren Buffett), Vanguard thinks we're looking at a much more humble 4-5% annually going forward ...
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Look, I get it. Every time you check the news lately, it feels like the economy is one sneeze away from falling apart. Layoffs are hitting record highs, unemployment's creeping up, and your LinkedIn feed is basically a support group for the recently downsized. But here's the thing: Morgan Stanley's equity team just dropped a note saying "hold up, we're actually at the beginning of something good." And before you roll your eyes at another Wall Street hot take, hear them ...
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So here's the thing nobody's talking about while everyone's losing their minds over AI chips: all those fancy data centers running ChatGPT and friends? They're basically digital energy vampires that never sleep. Picture this: You're training the next breakthrough AI model, and halfway through your million-dollar compute run, the power hiccups for two seconds. Boom. Days of work down the drain, and your CFO is now questioning your life choices. That's "The Crunch" – the moment when AI's insatiable appetite for electricity ...
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Remember when your weird uncle at Thanksgiving kept talking about silver? Well, turns out he might've been onto something. Pan American Silver (PAAS) just rocketed 11% higher yesterday, hitting a record $48.41, and honestly, it's been quite the ride. Here's the thing: silver prices just topped $61 per troy ounce for the first time ever. That's not a typo. The shiny metal that usually plays second fiddle to gold has been absolutely crushing it in 2025, up a jaw-dropping 105%. Meanwhile, ...
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So the Fed just had their little meeting yesterday, and guess what? They basically told the stock market, "Go ahead, have your fun." It wasn't the cleanest breakup with hawkish policy, but it was good enough to get this party started. Here's what went down: Jerome Powell and his crew cut rates by a quarter point (check), updated their economic outlook to be slightly less doom-and-gloom (double check), and kept the door open for more cuts down the road (triple check) ...
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So here's the thing everyone's missing while they're busy arguing about whether ChatGPT will steal their job: AI is basically a really, really hungry teenager that never stops eating electricity. Wall Street's obsessing over chip stocks and cloud companies, but there's a $50 billion infrastructure problem brewing right under their noses. And honestly? It's kind of hilarious that nobody's talking about it. The Problem: AI Centers Are Power Vampires Picture this: You've got these massive AI data centers running 24/7, training models that ...
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Look, I get it. Everyone's still drooling over Nvidia and its AI magic tricks. The chip giant is up 36% this year, which is nothing to sneeze at. But while you were busy watching robots learn to paint and write poetry, something hilarious happened: Dollar General just ate Nvidia's lunch. Yeah, you read that right. The place where you buy off-brand cereal and questionable energy drinks is up 74% in 2025. That's double Nvidia's gains. Sometimes the most boring investments are ...
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So LPL Financial just dropped their 2026 market outlook, and surprise surprise – they think the S&P 500 is going up. Revolutionary stuff, right? But before you roll your eyes, their prediction is actually pretty reasonable: they're calling for the index to hit somewhere between 7,300 and 7,400 by the end of 2026. That's about a 7-8% gain, which in today's market feels almost... modest? Remember when we used to get excited about 10% annual returns? Those were simpler times. The AI ...
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