The 2023 wealth rankings are fresh out: the top 10 billionaires in the world made a staggering $465.4 billion in a year, a number that exceeds the entire market capitalization of Walmart, which is $402.44 billion.
Elon Musk has reclaimed the title of the richest person, with a net worth of $229 billion, an increase of $92 billion over the year. Following closely behind are Bezos( with an increase of $69.9 billion) and Zuckerberg( with an increase of $82.5 billion). This surge is primarily due to the S&P 500 rising 24% over the year, with technology stocks soaring collectively.
Interestingly, t

# Why Dividend Stocks Crushed It in 2022 (And Could Again)
While most stocks got hammered last year—Nasdaq down 33%, S&P 500 down 19%—there was a quiet winner nobody talks about: high-dividend Dow stocks.
The strategy? Called "Dogs of the Dow," it's ridiculously simple: grab the 10 highest-yielding Dow stocks, split your money equally, hold for a year, then rebalance. That's it.
**The results?** Dogs of the Dow returned roughly 2% in 2022 (including dividends), beating the Dow itself by 7 percentage points. Not earth-shattering, but while everyone else was watching their portfolios crater, di

Elon Musk just clarified something on Twitter that's been bugging him: he's British/English descent, not Afrikaner. Pretty straightforward, but here's where it gets fun — he drew a parallel to J.R.R. Tolkien, the LOTR author who was also born in South Africa back in 1892.
Tolkien moved to England as a kid, and Musk... well, his South African childhood was apparently intense (wilderness camps at 12, the whole thing). But the fact that both these legendary figures share that random South Africa birth link is kind of wild.
The clarification came after a fan's blog post described Musk's upbringing

# Market Cap 101: The Quick Way to Measure a Company's Size
Market cap = stock price × total shares outstanding. That's it.
Why it matters? It tells you how big a company actually is and helps investors sort them into buckets:
**Large-cap** ($10B+): Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia — stable, lower growth, often pay dividends
**Mid-cap** ($2B-$10B): The sweet spot — decent growth potential with moderate risk
**Small-cap** ($250M-$2B): Early-stage companies, higher upside but way more volatile
# # Quick Example
ABC Tech: 50M shares × $20/share = $1B market cap → classified as small-cap
# # The Catch?
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# Palladium's 2025 Outlook: Why This Precious Metal Could Keep Sliding
**The palladium story is pretty straightforward: it peaked at $3,002/oz back in Feb 2022, and it's been mostly downhill since.** Spent most of 2024 bouncing between $900-$1,100, with a brief spike to $1,200 in October when the US tightened sanctions on Russian metals.
Here's the problem: **80% of palladium demand comes from auto catalytic converters**, and that sector is getting hit from multiple angles:
**The EV headwind** — Electric vehicles don't need palladium. EV adoption is accelerating (7% market share in 2023 → 13.