About 580 articles by Matthew Milner

The Best Investment in 2025: A Golfer or a Startup?

If you were asked to name the single best investment of the past few years, you might think of stocks, gold, maybe crypto.

But the best-performing “investment” wasn’t any of those.

Instead, it was a golfer: Scottie Scheffler.

Since the start of 2022, Scheffler has dominated the sport. He’s won…

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How a Tiny Piece of Cardboard Could Make You $12.9 Million

Last weekend, a single basketball card sold for $12.9 million.

Yes, you read that right: nearly thirteen million dollars for a tiny piece of cardboard.

Granted, this wasn’t just any card. It was a “1 of 1” Logoman card signed by Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. With Bryant’s tragic death,…

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Why Steve Cohen is rushing into defense startups

Billionaire hedge-fund manager Steven Cohen has built one of the most successful investment firms on Wall Street.

Cohen’s fund, Point72 Asset Management, manages nearly $40 billion in assets and has a reputation for backing huge, winning trades.

But here’s what’s interesting. Despite his dominance in the public markets, Cohen is…

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Invest Alongside the "Pros" in 3 Startup Deals

Can you guess the No. 1 reason a startup goes out of business?

Here it is:

Because it runs out of money.

Sounds simple, but it's true. If a company can’t pay its bills, it’ll go belly up. Meanwhile, if it can keep the lights on, it can live to…

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Bad News from Morningstar — Here’s What To Do Now

Bad news from Morningstar.

The classic 60/40 portfolio just posted its worst stretch in 150 years.

This is a wake-up call. It shattered the illusion that bonds provide downside protection.

Today, I’ll explain what’s going on here…

And reveal a better way to build a portfolio.

60/40 Is Dead

For…

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How the Rich Pay ZERO Taxes (and how you can too)

A few years ago, the independent newsroom ProPublica published a shocker of a report.

Based on an analysis of 25 years of tax returns, here’s what it uncovered:

  • In 2007, Jeff Bezos paid zero income taxes.
  • In 2018, Elon Musk paid zero income taxes.
  • For three years in a row, billionaire investor George…

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Now You Can Buy SpaceX — Should You?

This past week, something extraordinary happened:

Ordinary investors like you and me were offered the chance to buy “shares” in some of the fastest-growing private companies on Earth.

I’m talking about pre-IPO companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, even SpaceX.

But there’s a catch.

These aren’t actual shares. They’re something called tokens.

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