The private credit industry offers nonbank loans directly to businesses, particularly privately held midmarket companies.

Ride along on one coffee company's journey through the stock market—from going public with an initial public offering to struggling with how negative news coverage impacts a stock's value—to put yourself in the shoes of a newly public company.

Tom Petty used bankruptcy to change the music industry after resolving a dispute over how a label was treating him as an artist and self-producing an album that racked up $500K in debt.

The Anthropic Economic Index shows AI adoption is highest in computer science roles.

Some Ivy Leagues are worth billions of dollars, managing massive endowments to support their operations and investing donations for long-term growth rather than spending them.

See America's top companies by revenue in 1994 versus 2023—Sears isn't on the 2023 list, while Amazon isn't in the 1994 edition.

'Tulip mania,' the 1630s Dutch craze where rare bulbs were briefly traded like luxury assets, may have been the first financial bubble—and it still shapes markets today.

A successful angel investor can multiply their investment by 3 to 10 times.

Certificates of deposit are low-risk savings tools that offer a stable way to grow your money over time.

If the US government paid off its debt, it could disrupt the entire bond market, as Treasury bonds are among the most common bonds for investors and the majority of the national debt is in bonds.

Much of Estée Lauder's success stemmed from her laser focus on serving her target market: wealthy women who saw beauty as an investment.

See which Apple products drive the most of its $391B revenue.

There's a grading room on the eighth floor of the New York Stock Exchange where experts loudly slurp coffee and then spit it out to test its quality.

Bitcoin, the oldest and most popular cryptocurrency, is a digital cash alternative introduced in 2009 that rapidly grew in popularity and now boasts a global user base.

The prevalence of 401(k) plans and IRAs over pensions shifted investment risk from employers to employees.

Dollar stores often place staple items at the back of the store so customers encounter other less-necessary items on their way there, leading to impulse buys.

Prediction market Kalshi's CEO Tarek Mansour ​​has said that prediction markets are similar to the stock market—except instead of buying and selling shares of companies, users buy and sell "yes" or "no" on whether an event is going to happen or not.

David Ogilvy—one of history's most famous and influential advertising executives—wrote multiple books, including 'Ogilvy on Advertising,' a career memoir full of his favorite copywriting advice.

Jevon's paradox is an economic principle arguing that as technological progress makes using resources, like coal or water, more efficient, the consumption of that resource will paradoxically increase.

More than 80% of New York City's newsstands have closed in the past two decades, in part due to a series of price caps that hurt the stands' ability to evolve.

'Parkinson's Law' states that however long you have to complete a task is how long it takes, and originated as critique of British bureaucracy.

Pan Am was once the largest international airline in the US—but it shut down in 1991 after a series of financial issues, beginning with increased operating costs and reduced demand driven by the oil crisis in the 1970s.

The word 'mortgage' comes from medieval French, meaning 'death contract.'

See how 30-year fixed mortgage rates have changed over time—from a 1980s peak of roughly 18%, to hovering around 3% during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The creator economy—which is projected to be worth as much as $480B by 2027—is a system powered by people creating online content for monetizable audiences.

Computer scientists first started trying to optimize dating using computers in the 1950s.

Leveraged ETFs made headlines in 2026 as a boom in single-stock leveraged products tied to AI companies drove volatility and record retail demand.

Many of luxury holding company LVMH's acquisitions were due to chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault's search for undervalued companies.

Visualize stock market's volatility between 2017 and 2025.

The first federal minimum wage wasn't set until 1938, when it was 25 cents per hour.

Indicators of economic bubbles include euphoric narratives and extreme valuations.

Listen to Steve Jobs explain his 'rock tumbler' metaphor for teamwork.

When consumers think an economic downturn is looming, the 'lipstick index' economic theory argues that sales of more affordable luxury items (such as lipstick) go up.

Earnings season—the time period at the end of each quarter when many public companies release their earnings reports—offers a chance for investors and Wall Street analysts to evaluate how a wide range of companies are performing at once.

For Reddit's founders, the company's early days included choosing a dinner with Y Combinator's Paul Graham over a spring break trip, a $10M Condé Nast acquisition, and other pivotal moments.

Listen to legendary investor Marc Andreessen break down the 'lump of labor fallacy,' which argues that there's not a finite amount of work in an economy and that technological innovations create new industries.

Over 1.9 million Americans—more than a quarter of those unemployed—have been classified as 'long-term' unemployed in a given month in 2026, meaning they've been out of work for at least 27 weeks.

Ozempic parent company Novo Nordisk operates under a 'foundation ownership model'—meaning that a foundation holds the majority of the company's voting power, while most of its equity is owned by public investors.

Watch Dr. Laurence Peter explain his 'Peter Principle,' which states that people are promoted to their level of incompetence and explains why bosses aren't always good at their jobs.

Futures contracts—which are agreements to buy or sell a standardized asset at a specific future time—are the primary way commodities are bought and sold.

Visa founder Dee Hock abruptly left the credit card company in 1984, saying his inner voice told him that business, power, and money are not what life is about.

A stock index is a group of companies clustered together, often providing a condensed snapshot of a market segment.

See how the S&P 500 performed throughout the first 100 days of each modern presidency.

Millions of Americans will be invested in SpaceX because of the fast-tracked process to list SpaceX on the NASDAQ 100, and, subsequently, the index funds that track it.

Construction of small, affordable starter homes has decreased 75% since the 1970s.

Roughly 90% of generational wealth dries up by the third generation, epitomized by the phrase 'shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.'

See the value of currency in circulation in billions of dollars as of December 31 of each year.

On average, CEOs at top US companies make 281 times as much as the average worker—partly due to valuable stock options that are frequently included in executive compensation packets.

The IRS—a division of the US Treasury Department that enforces the Internal Revenue Code, collects taxes, and enforces tax laws—has been a frequent victim of arson over the years.

See an original Coca-Cola coupon—one of the earliest surviving coupons used in America—that helped popularize the soda brand in its early days.