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On today’s show, we discuss:
- America’s New Tax Mantra: ‘The IRS Isn’t Going to Catch Me’
- Ritholtz Wealth’s Ben Carlson: Don’t Tell Clients to ‘Ignore the Noise.’ Help Them Automate Good Investing Behavior.
- Confessions of an Institutional Investor
- Energy Stocks Are Having a Moment That Could Last
- AI and Young-adult Jobs: The Real Mystery
- Anxious Parents Are Spending Upwards of $50,000 to Land Their Kid a Job
- Did Millennials or Boomers Have It Harder? We Went Searching for the Answer
- What drives AI adoption?
- Housing and Demographics
- Quartr IR data, natively inside Claude
- Your 12 Good Years
- Is the Family-Friendly Box Office Revival for Real?
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