Central banks are scaling back on the dollar as institutional bullion buying climbs to record highs. In the World Gold Council’s (WGC) latest annual survey of central banks, 83% of respondents expect to increase their gold holdings over the next year. That’s up from 76% in 2025. This surge in demand is due to the…
After spiking to a near-record high in May, financial advisors’ confidence in the overall economy and the equity markets fell last month, as advisors reported their most pessimistic view to date of the economy’s long-term prospects. Overall, advisors’ feelings about the health of the economy fell 12% to an index reading of 106, while their…
Esther Perel has spent her career exploring the complexities of human relationships. Her seminal book, Mating in Captivity, examined the tension between love and desire. Now, the psychotherapist is shifting her attention to the workplace, where AI, hybrid working, and declining engagement are reshaping how colleagues connect. Europe has the lowest employee engagement of any region in the world at 12%, according to Gallup’s 2026 State of the…
This free printable calendar 2027 will become your most favorite organizing tool! Plan your schedule, organize events, manage your goals, keep track of activities, and more! Calendar people are my kind of people. Every year around this time, I start to get a bunch of emails asking, “When is next year’s calendar coming out?!” This…
SpaceX’s stock fell further on Friday, a day after it aborted a test flight for its Starship rocket at the last second, and amid choppy post-IPO trading. The aerospace giant was expected to launch its Starship mega rocket within a 90-minute window at 5:45 p.m. in Texas on Thursday, but an engine ignition failure forced…
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What business problems can hybrid cloud and multicloud address? Hybrid and multicloud strategies address several challenges. “Most importantly, they provide flexibility and choice,” says Scott Petry, a cloud and digital services principal with PwC US. “They allow businesses to select the best cloud solution for each workload or application.” Firms in highly regulated sectors like…
Today I want to talk about something that’s become an essential part of my life—smart money management. Whether it’s because of the ever-increasing cost of living or simply discovering better alternatives, there are a lot of items that I’ve consciously removed from my shopping list. In this blog post, I’ll share with you some of…
High earners above the Roth income limit can contribute to a traditional IRA and immediately convert it to a Roth. The backdoor Roth conversion is legal and widely used, so use it to unlock tax-free retirement growth at any income. There’s one catch. Pre-tax money already sitting in your IRAs makes part of the conversion…
Imagine that history made one small exception. For one evening only, time stopped separating generations. High above the noise of a packed World Cup final game, in a quiet corner of the grandstand untouched by television cameras, eight elderly gentlemen quietly took their seats. No one around them seemed to notice. The crowd had come…
