John Zouzoulas, CFP Certified Financial Planner

How $9.99 Became the Most Compelling Price in Retail Companies are redesigning packaging and slashing marketing budgets to maintain the psychologically important threshold.

Elite Students Are Turning Away From Cushy Jobs in Finance, Tech and Consulting. Here’s the Unexpected Route They’re Taking Instead. Instead of accepting summer internships at tech or finance companies, students at Princeton and Yale are pursuing different dreams.

International Diversification Is Working Again — What Investors Should Do About It For investors who have effectively become home-country biased through years of underweighting non-US assets, revisiting that allocation is now analytically justified rather than merely a diversification platitude.

The New ‘Bootstrap’ to the American Dream: Deep Cleaning Cars Young entrepreneurs are capitalizing on demand for full-service car cleaning to keep vehicles looking spiffy.

Better to Buy a Company Than to Found One: Charles Skinner Entrepreneurship through acquisition can be just as rewarding and often far more profitable than founding a company from scratch. As older entrepreneurs begin to retire, this is a chance for young leaders to take over and 'rejuventate' overlooked businesses.

Elon Musk Keeps Getting Richer. Here's How His Wealth Blew Past $1 Trillion. Elon Musk recently became the first person whose net worth surpassed $1 trillion, after his SpaceX's blockbuster IPO. Most of Musk's estimated wealth is tied to his stock holdings in SpaceX and Tesla.

Your Customers Don’t Care About AI — But Your Investors Do. Here’s How to Tailor Your Messaging For the Right Audience. Every startup wave creates the same mistake: Founders optimize their messaging for investors and accidentally confuse the people they actually need to win. From crypto to AI, the companies that scale are usually the ones that hide complexity behind the clearest customer experience.

Everyone Has Access to AI Now. Here’s What Will Actually Make Your Brand Stand Out. Entrepreneurs are discovering that the real challenge is no longer production speed—but standing out in a landscape where everything is starting to sound the same.

Experts See Some Good News In the CPI Report—But Inflation Still Carries Risks for Markets Inflation accelerated to a three-year high last month, but core prices rose less than expected, an encouraging sign for investors worried that resurgent inflation could force the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this year.

SpaceX Employees Get a Crash Course in How the Rich Handle Money Life-altering fortunes will require navigating if and when to sell shares, and strategic alternatives