On this week’s show Tom, Jacob, and Noah mix it up by leaning into a new show structure. We talk about how high fixed costs can lead to the death of your financial life, why the stock market makes you feel bad, home prices across the US, Apple’s buy now pay later product launch, the dying metaverse, and what to pack when the weather turns bad.

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Suggestion
https://www.fjellcapital.com/posts/treat-your-financial-life-like-a-tech-company

What Went On
⁠Why the Stock Market Makes You Feel Bad All the Time - A Wealth of Common Sense⁠ - https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2023/03/why-the-stock-market-makes-you-feel-bad-all-the-time/

⁠The housing market is rising in the east and setting in the west, just like the sun⁠ - https://www.wsj.com/articles/home-prices-housing-market-trends-east-west-83c9eb56?mod=hp_lead_pos7

⁠Apple Pay Later and AI’s potential effect on marketing, will you be spending more money involuntarily.⁠ - https://thebasispoint.com/3-quick-reasons-apple-pay-later-will-eat-bnpl-competitors/

⁠The Metaverse goes dark⁠ - https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-metaverse-is-quickly-turning-into-the-meh-taverse-1a8dc3d0?st=jga94avl5pn6b19&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

⁠Donald Trump gets indicted on 30 some accounts of document fraud⁠ - https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/31/trump-indicted-ny-grand-jury.html

⁠There will be losers, the first to feel the tension are using the first to fall -⁠ https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/31/nikola-stock-sale-priced-below-market.html

Quote of the Week
⁠“When the weathermen pack umbrellas, the forecast is for rain.” -Will Robbins, Equity Portfolio Manager at Capital Group⁠