Big news for you:

Vanguard, the largest mutual fund company in the world, now offers investment access to startups!

As a company executive just told Business Insider, its goal is to “bring this asset class to investors who need it the most” so they can improve their investment performance.

This…

If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably had it with all the bad news.

Bad news about inflation and the economy…

Bad news about cyber threats crippling the nation…

Bad news about a sky-high stock market that has nowhere to go but down.

Enough already!

Which is why I’m going…

Fifty years ago, a tiny coffee shop with a strange name opened in Seattle’s Pike Place Market.

It was called Starbucks, and it grew slowly at first. But as it expanded across the U.S. and overseas, its popularity and value started to soar.

Eventually, twenty-four years after it was founded,…

Darn it — Amazon got me again!

This time it was a mini waffle iron.

I don’t even like waffles. Why would I buy a mini waffle iron?

The reason is laughable. And it’s the same reason I bought a scalp massager, a milk frother, and a countertop cereal dispenser:…

I love having dinner with my 2-year-old son.

If he’s hesitant about something on his plate, I show him what he’s missing by eating it myself.

He stares at me, intrigued. I can see him thinking, “Hmm, if Daddy likes it, it must be good.”

I thought about this recently…

The ultra-rich are obsessed with investing in venture capital funds.

After all, such funds can make their investors even richer.

Unfortunately, as Wayne started to explain last week, many hurdles are keeping investors like you out of this lucrative asset class.

So today, I’ll throw some light on these hurdles…

I know someone that’s made 110 startup investments — this year.

That’s nuts. It means that, since Jan 1, they’ve made at least one investment every single weekday.

Sure, startups can lead you to huge windfalls. And sure, their returns beat the stock market by nearly 10x. But still, one…

If often seems like Google, Facebook, and Amazon are unstoppable.

These three giants accounted for an estimated 65% of U.S. digital ad spending last year — and for the companies and their shareholders, that led to billions in profits.

But recently, the “dirty little secret” about how they actually earn…

Your bank is FREAKING OUT right now.

For the first time in nearly 200 years, it’s facing an existential threat.

Because of a recent development in the crypto sector, billions of dollars in bank profits are at risk of being wiped out forever.

For banks, this is terrifying.

But as…

Last month, a widely ridiculed startup went public.

For years, people called it a “bad idea.” Initially, even the founder himself seemed skeptical: when he was looking for teammates to join him, he called his efforts a “hail mary.”

But despite all these red flags, its earliest private investors ended…