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On today’s show, we discuss:
- The psychologist who turned the investing world on its head
- Larry Fink’s 2024 annual chairman letter to investors
- The S&P 500 clinches best start to year since 2019
- The typical homebuyer’s downpayment is $56,000, up 24% from a year ago
- Robinhood Gold Card
- The gender wealth gap for never-married adults shrank in 2022
- Jack Daniels finds demand is on the rocks
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Corporate profits rose to a new all time high in Q4 of 2023. pic.twitter.com/mIuxvfEwqr
— Kathy Jones (@KathyJones) March 28, 2024
🍫🍫🍫THE CHOCOLATE CRISIS — an UPDATED thread🆕🆕🆕:
Retail chocolate prices are rising (and will increase much further, while shrinkflation will reduce sizes) after wholesale cocoa prices surged to an unthinkable all-time high of ***$10,000 a ton*** on Tuesday.
1/15 @Opinion pic.twitter.com/rX9pUhInz0
— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) March 26, 2024
We've been in a rolling recession for white collar hiring — kind of wonder if this has dynamics similar to other bullwhip/credit-sensitive industry downturns that we've seen and it picks up later this year just because it has to: pic.twitter.com/0PxWOdB1WD
— Conor Sen (@conorsen) March 28, 2024
Fun chart ….
50% of the US population lives in the blue counties (148)
50% of the US population lives in the orange counties (2,998) pic.twitter.com/OHI9kaHHtQ
— Jim Bianco (@biancoresearch) April 1, 2024
Road House (@TheNotoriousMMA's acting debut) has attracted 50 million+ worldwide viewers on Prime Video over its first two weekends
It is Amazon MGM Studios’ most-watched produced film debut ever pic.twitter.com/4x5F5Esirz
— Sportico (@Sportico) April 1, 2024
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