This week on The Personal Wealth Coach, Jake flies solo while Jeff soaks up the 70-degree glory of North Carolina. Meanwhile, back in the Texas heat, Jake unpacks the cooler but far more volatile world of markets, memes, and mergers. From meme stocks to durable goods orders, from a record-breaking S&P 500 to a plummeting oil price, this episode peels back the layers (and metaphors) to reveal what’s really going on beneath the economic headlines.
And then there’s the juicy stuff—like why CBS may have axed Colbert’s show and what a $16 million lawsuit has to do with a $5 billion merger. Is it political? Is it corporate bean-counting? Is it both? Jake breaks it down, biases and all. Throw in some behavioral economics, frothy AI speculation, and the long tail of internet infrastructure, and you’ve got yourself a whirlwind tour of money, power, and why uncertainty might be the only thing that’s certain right now.
This episode was recorded on July 25th, 2025.
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