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Welcome to this Week’s edition of the Sunday Best, and a happy (belated) Valentine’s day to you! We’re reading everything from how heartbreak could force physicians to pay a steep price – and what to do about an ill timed break-up – how Gen Z and Millenials are faring in the housing market, and an ultimate guide to tariffs.
As always, we’ve included something to take you back to the basics and simplify complex topics like venture capital and hedge funds, investing in the stock market as a strategy to protect against inflations, and medical breakthroughs, developments, and alarm bells.
Happy reading!
The Sunday Best 02/16/2025
The two most important medical breakthroughs of the modern era are likely penicillin and washing your hands to stop the spread of infection in hospitals. Similarly, financial advice doesn’t have to be complicated to be effective. Here are some simple explanations to complex topics.
If you want to protect yourself against the risk of resurgent inflation and you have some savings to spare, you could do worse than just invest them in the stock market, where dividend income has grown impressively in real terms.
The control of measles is a test of how good our public health institutions are. And the fact that it is making a comeback is a bad sign. Last year, the U.S. had 284 measles cases — the highest number in five years.
The H5N1 bird flu virus has been on the warpath since 2022, infecting chickens, cows, wild birds and now pigs, ducks, cats and several other animals. This virus is versatile and mutating. And it is surely infecting more people than we think.
Now that we’re well into 2025, there’s no better time to look back on 2024 – a year that brought astonishing advancements in medical science and an undeniable sense of hope for the future.
Charles Schwab recently announced expanded overnight trading for all retail clients, allowing investors to trade a wider range of securities 24 hours, five days a week. Opening the doors to investing to more people is usually a good idea, but in this instance, the overly generous accessibility may backfire.
The ETF has been around since 2022. It doesn’t appear to have ever surpassed $50 million in net assets and it lagged the S&P 500 over its lifetime. Here are some lessons we’ve learned about ETFs.
When an industry consistently outperforms across different time periods, markets, and competitive landscapes, we’re no longer in the realm of coincidence. We’re looking at structural advantages that run deep. Which is why financial data is such a lucrative business.
According to President Donald Trump, “tariffs is the most beautiful word in the dictionary,” surpassed only by God, religion, and love. Trump has also claimed, as he did shortly after his inauguration, that “tariffs are going to make us rich as hell” and will “bring back businesses that left us.” Basically, to hear Trump tell it, tariffs are magical things that make everyone’s lives better. But is this true?
Thanks to soaring housing costs, a generation of twentysomethings are still in their childhood bedrooms. Glimpse into a portrait of family life with no empty nest and why Gen Z might never leave home.
The running joke – for years now – is that millennials are too busy buying avocado toast over becoming homeowners. Turns out, Millennials might be turning the idea of the American dream on its head, and for good reason…
Many investors focus on the stock market to grow their wealth. While mutual funds and traditional investment funds are solid options, alternative investments like venture capital, private equity funds, and hedge funds can offer high returns and better diversification across asset classes. But what do these types of investments actually mean, and how do they differ?
In medicine, resilience is non-negotiable. The ‘gut it out’ mindset dominates, leaving little room for personal struggles or romantic recovery. Yet, heartbreak — and its financial and emotional toll — doesn’t spare even the most disciplined professionals.
