Gold Prices Are Falling Below $4,000/Oz, But I Keep Buying Because Of This Rationale!

Key Takeaways Interest rates on personal loans rose 50 basis points to 11.86% in May, up from 11.36% in the first quarter of 2026, per Federal Reserve data. The interest rate you get on a personal loan depends on your credit history and debt-to-income ratio, as well as the loan amount and repayment terms. You…

New Federal Law Means More Grad Students Will Need Private Student Loans With the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, major changes are coming to the federal student loan program on July 1, 2026. They include limits on the amount of money graduate students can borrow from the government. The tighter borrowing caps…

Financial independence can mean different things to everyone. A 2013 survey from Capital One 360 found that 44 percent of American adults feel that financial independence means not having any debt, 26 percent said it means having an emergency savings fund, and 10 percent link financial independence with being able to retire early. I define…

Bitcoin Ordinals advocate Leonidas has proposed developing a new open-source Bitcoin client, aimed at removing restrictions affecting Runes and Ordinals transactions.  In a post to X on Friday, Leonidas called the proposed client “Bitcoin $DOG Mode,” which would lift the maximum individual transaction size to 3.9 million weight units (WU), compared to Bitcoin Core’s 400,000…

Interestingly, after a series of buys and sales over the past few weeks, the company is left with a net increase of only 69 bitcoin despite deploying roughly $20 million in additional capital, a crypto trader, KALEO, said on X. Because the company sold coins below the prices it had recently paid, the implied average…

The Swedish clothing retailer is in the middle of an optimization plan that involves shuttering stores across its brands, with more to come in 2026.