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I’m Ready to Go Back

The Irrelevant Investor

Time moves slowly when you're young. My childhood felt like an entire lifetime. My 30s are going by in the blink of an eye. One of the silver linings about the pandemic* is that time has slowed down. Being home for the past year has given me time that otherwise would have been spent commuting and doing a million other things. One of the things that helped pass the time is watching movies.

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Book Review: The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America by Marc Levinson

Fortune Financial

I have recently finished historian and economist Marc Levinson’s masterful The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America. While the story focuses largely on two brothers, John & George Hartford, and the rise of grocery chain they managed with great skill, readers will also learn much about the fascinating history of food retail.

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Why You Should Publish Your Advisory Fees on Your Website (Video)

Indigo Marketing Agency

Why you should publish your advisory fees and services on your website. Today I want to talk to you about a subject I’m passionate about: putting your pricing and services front and center on your website. There are so many advisors who are hesitant to do this (and most don’t have their fees listed on their sites at all). Watch this short video to learn three reasons why you should list your fees and services on your website.

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The Generational Wealth Gap

The Irrelevant Investor

Are younger people worse off today than prior generations were at similar ages? According to this widely circulated chart, which shows that Baby Boomers held a much larger portion of U.S. household wealth in their 30s and 40s than Gen Xers do today at the same age, the answer is an unequivocal yes. When you were born has an enormous impact on the type of returns you'll earn in the stock market.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Animal Spirits: The Active Management Resurgence

The Irrelevant Investor

Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by YCharts Mention Animal Spirits to receive 20% off when you initially sign up for the service On today’s show we discuss : The family office that crashed a few stocks More on that story Stock pickers' delight People are happy with all of the money spending Commodities are making houses more expensive The explosion in alternative investing platforms How to get access to IPOs through SoFi Starter homes are disappearing A lot of people think the stock ma

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These Are the Goods

The Irrelevant Investor

Articles By the mid 1990s, the cost of stock trading was ten times higher for retail investors than it was for institutions. (By Marc Rubinstein) The market is incredibly efficient at creating supply seemingly out of thin air to meet demand (By John Street Capital) The best time to start a business is on the heels of a recession (By Scott Galloway) Bitcoin is digital money.

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The State of the Stock Market

The Irrelevant Investor

The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high on Friday for the 15th time this year. This market's strength is impressive, considering that of the top 5 stocks by market cap, none are at all-time highs. Only two of them, Google and Microsoft, hit that mark over the last two months. Apple, the biggest stock in the world, is 16% below its peak in January.

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Have Investors Lost their Minds With Growth Stocks?

The Irrelevant Investor

The best stocks almost always appear expensive. But that doesn't mean buying a basket of expensive stocks is a good idea. In Barron's , Tony Sacconaghi shows that stocks with a price-to-sales ratio of 15 or higher have not fared well going back to 1970. These days, the market is flush with stocks that appear expensive based on this criteria. Sacconaghi notes that 25 tech stocks were in this bucket in 2017.