Economists' estimates are often wildly off the mark. But that doesn't mean they aren't useful.
The online broker's shares have tumbled 80% from their peak, but its 22 million users are worth something.
There have been episodes of declining breadth in the past, and those usually presage large corrections or bear markets.
It will have the same characteristics as a commodities fund backed by futures.
The time it takes to study and pass the exams would be better spent on just about any other pursuit.
Retail trading of meme stocks is just a massive transfer of wealth from the unsophisticated to the sophisticated.
That number might sound a little ambitious, but not by much.
Many people tend to wrongly view investing as an epic collision between good and evil, as well as the right versus the left.
Excesses throughout the financial system raise the odds that the next recession could be our last as a free-market economy.