Educational breakdowns of core investing concepts, market behavior, and data-driven investing principles.
A narrative breakdown of gold's 20-year journey from 2005 to 2025's ,000 breakthrough. Explore how two main needles (real rates & dollar) and four supporting actors (risk, inflation, central bank buying, ETF flows) drive gold prices.
A story-driven explainer of Q3 2025's biggest stock declines: FactSet, Molina Healthcare, Centene, Align Technology, and Gartner – why they fell and what investors should watch next
Analyzing September 2025 sector performance: Tech and Communication Services led with 7%+ gains while Materials and Consumer Staples lagged, dragged by commodity weakness and defensive rotation
Analyzing the biggest S&P 500 gainers in September 2025: WBD's takeover buzz, storage boom for WDC/STX, Micron's memory supercycle, and AppLovin's AI ad engine
Analyzing how AI and automation are reshaping labor across S&P 500 companies, from warehouse floors to back offices
Understanding SaaS metrics: NRR, Rule of 40, and how subscription models create investor value
A 10-year, forward P/E reality check (S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, Russell 2000)
Why tiny fees quietly carry giant profits - with Costco, Amazon, and Apple
History, sectors, and simple ETF cues you can actually use - a practical guide to understanding how Fed rate cuts affect different market sectors
SPY and QQQ are two of the most popular U.S. ETFs. SPY represents the whole U.S. economy with broad sector diversification, while QQQ focuses heavily on technology and growth. Over the last decade QQQ outperformed but with higher volatility. This article explains their differences, sector breakdowns, and risk profiles in an easy-to-read format.
Part 1 focuses on understanding Semrush as a product. It explains in plain language how the platform helps marketers replace guesswork with data-driven actions across keyword research, site health, competitor analysis, backlinks, social media, local SEO, and AI search visibility.
A practical explanation of how fiat-backed, over-collateralized (DAI-style), and algorithmic (UST-style) stablecoins maintain a $1 peg. It details how to purchase each type and the mechanisms—and trust assumptions—that anchor the peg: bank reserves and mint/redeem windows for fiat-backed; excess collateral, liquidations, governance, and oracles for DAI-style; and twin-token arbitrage plus market confidence for algorithmic designs. The conclusion contrasts their resilience and potential failure points.
From April to September 2025, the Fed’s language moved from patience to preparedness and ultimately to a consensus for gradual rate cuts. This JSON preserves every line of the original article—including the intro, monthly quotes, interpretation tips, and sources—so it can be rendered exactly as written.
From 2018 to 2024, Lecanemab’s dramatic clinical and regulatory journey reveals how biotech stock prices are driven by clinical data quality, regulatory decisions, insurance coverage, and real-world usability. This case study shows investors why biotech valuations swing so violently.
Pokémon cards have grown from children's toys into a multi-billion-dollar global market. This article explains the scale of the market, how cards are traded, what makes them rare, and highlights actual auction prices to show which cards soared and which stumbled. It concludes that nostalgia has value, but the investment outcome depends on the specific card.
Blue-chip art, as tracked through the Artprice100 index, has shown striking performance: +405% since 2000 (versus +224% for the S&P 500 price index between 1999 and 2021). Recent years remind us that art is not a straight line—+1.55% in 2023, –8.3% in 2024. Unlike stocks, art trades through infrequent auctions, with individual masterpieces sometimes delivering astronomical gains. This article compares art and stocks using both index-level data and price histories for 22 iconic works, with FX assumptions noted.
Blue-chip art, tracked through the Artprice100 index, rose +1.55% in 2023, slipped –8.3% in 2024, but is still up roughly +405% since 2000. By comparison, the S&P 500 price index gained about +224% between 1999-12-31 and 2021-12-31. Individual masterpieces show spectacular returns—Basquiat’s 1982 skull painting grew nearly 581,000%—but art trades infrequently and carries liquidity and cost caveats. This article walks through both index-level comparisons and detailed price histories of 22 iconic works.
Netflix’s 2024 Form 10-K shows a business still dominated by subscriptions, but with slowing average revenue per member. In regions with lower ARPU, the ad-supported plan could become a powerful second engine. By May 2025, ad-tier users had already reached 94 million, signaling a major shift in Netflix’s revenue model.
