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The 351 Conversion Breakdown, a 400-Acre Farm Legacy Fight, and Patterns After Seven Years
Transcript Intro Stephan Shipe: Welcome back to the Scholar Wealth Podcast. This week we begin with a listener sitting on a concentrated single stock position from a 2015 acquisition who […]
Sports Team ETFs and the Question of What Produces the Return
Full Article Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/sports-team-etfs-prediction-markets-futures-gambling.html Quote from Evan Mills “For avid sports gamblers and sports fanatics, their team can already break their heart with a loss. Now there’s a way it […]
Why I Now Think of Gold as Insurance, Not an Investment
The standard knock on gold is that it does not yield anything. No dividends, no coupons, no earnings. For most of my career, if I saw a large gold position […]
At What Yield Would You Lock In Long-Term Bonds?
If the ten-year Treasury climbed to 7% or 8%, would you move most of your portfolio into long-term bonds and stop worrying about the stock market? It is a fair […]
The Fed Cut and the Bond Market, Physical Gold as Risk Management, and the Commercial Real Estate Refinancing Wall
Transcript Stephan Shipe: Today we’re here with Dr. Deon Strickland, our in-house economist and financial advisor at Scholar Financial Advising, in front of our live studio audience. Tell me what’s […]
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