#congressional-spending — Wealth & Means

Episodes tagged #congressional-spending on Wealth & Means.

Who Holds the Value? — 2026-11-07
What do central banks, fantasy-football managers, Congress and a nineteenth-century glassmaker have in common? They all face the same deceptively difficult question: what deserves to be held, and for what purpose? In Episode Fifty-Seven of Wealth and Means, we follow thirteen overlooked stories across markets, energy supply chains, global trade, materials science, culture, entertainment and professional sports. We begin with a divide in the gold market: central banks and investment funds added substantially to their holdings while individual bar-and-coin buyers were more cautious. Then we look at depleted petroleum inventories, China's clean-tech export machine, critical-mineral negotiations, inflation-indexed tax thresholds, mortgage costs, orbital assembly and the environmental footprint left by ancient Maya pigments. Wake Up Ready prepares investors for the week of November ninth through thirteenth, with Tuesday's consumer-price report, Treasury auctions and Friday's producer-price data at the center of the calendar. Knowledge Bomb gives fantasy managers a disciplined second-half strategy: forget draft price, value opportunity, assess playoff schedules and manage risk. Humor Me asks what Congress actually means when it claims the power of the purse. In The Greater Debate, imagined versions of John Bogle and Ray Dalio confront the investment case for gold. Finally, Let's Invent Again tells the story of Louis Comfort Tiffany, the glass pioneer who connected art, chemistry and manufacturing. The thread: owning an asset or holding an opinion is only the beginning. The harder work is deciding whether it still belongs in the plan.

#congressional-spending — Wealth & Means

Episodes tagged #congressional-spending on Wealth & Means.

Who Holds the Value? — 2026-11-07
What do central banks, fantasy-football managers, Congress and a nineteenth-century glassmaker have in common? They all face the same deceptively difficult question: what deserves to be held, and for what purpose? In Episode Fifty-Seven of Wealth and Means, we follow thirteen overlooked stories across markets, energy supply chains, global trade, materials science, culture, entertainment and professional sports. We begin with a divide in the gold market: central banks and investment funds added substantially to their holdings while individual bar-and-coin buyers were more cautious. Then we look at depleted petroleum inventories, China's clean-tech export machine, critical-mineral negotiations, inflation-indexed tax thresholds, mortgage costs, orbital assembly and the environmental footprint left by ancient Maya pigments. Wake Up Ready prepares investors for the week of November ninth through thirteenth, with Tuesday's consumer-price report, Treasury auctions and Friday's producer-price data at the center of the calendar. Knowledge Bomb gives fantasy managers a disciplined second-half strategy: forget draft price, value opportunity, assess playoff schedules and manage risk. Humor Me asks what Congress actually means when it claims the power of the purse. In The Greater Debate, imagined versions of John Bogle and Ray Dalio confront the investment case for gold. Finally, Let's Invent Again tells the story of Louis Comfort Tiffany, the glass pioneer who connected art, chemistry and manufacturing. The thread: owning an asset or holding an opinion is only the beginning. The harder work is deciding whether it still belongs in the plan.