The rise of the ‘F@$K It’ investor

Take 730 delegates from 44 countries, plus another 2,000 or so hangers-on. House them in a remote, dilapidated hotel with holes in the roof and broken furniture. Deliver a train wagon filled with alcohol. Throw in some Russian spies, German prisoners of war, a troupe of bombshell ...  Show more

What is money? And what can a small island in Micronesia teach us about how it works? On Yap, a remote island in the western Pacific, giant calcite “Rai” stones once functioned as currency, where ownership and collective trust — rather than physical possession — defined wealth an ...  Show more

China has blocked imports from hundreds of Taiwanese food producers in response to the visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taipei, a flurry of executive departures from SoftBank stokes uncertainty over who will take over from Masayoshi Son, and Behind The Money host Mich ...

Hey Smarties! We get a lot of questions about the stock market, and today we’re sharing an episode from “Financially Inclined,” Marketplace’s new podcast for teens, that might answer some of them. Host Yanely Espinal gets into how the stock market works, the difference between st ...  Show more

In Chris Manske’s new book, The Prepared Investor, he says “There’s a typical Wall Street response to any and all crises…keep your diversified portfolios in place, and someday, maybe years from now, investments will return to where they once were. This type of wait-it-out mentali ...  Show more

Technology stocks have gotten clobbered this year, and investor attention has focused on rising interest rates as the reason behind it. But that’s not the whole story, says Bloomberg Intelligence Chief Equity Strategist Gina Martin Adams.On this episode, she helps dissect the shi ...  Show more