The Best One Yet - 🌚 “Eclipse Economy” — Solar Eclipse boom towns. Japan’s diaper downturn. And Facebook’s best product? Marketplace.

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The total solar eclipse hits the US one week from today on April 8th — So we're looking at the financial impact on the Eclipse Boomtowns, from Texas to Maine. 

Japan’s largest diaper brand just made a shocking move: Switching from baby diapers to adult diapers — Japan is officially the oldest country in the world, but immigration is the anti-aging cream of economics.

And Facebook’s most successful feature ever? It's Facebook Marketplace — with over a billion people buying something, It's bigger than Walmart, eBay, and even Amazon. 


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The Best One Yet - 🚀 “Finally launching Again” — Robinhood’s new credit card. Flamin’ Hot’s $3B flavor. Paid childcare’s ROI.

Yetis, this our last  pod of the week because markets are closed for Good Friday.

Robinhood stock has doubled in the past year, now it’s got a (golden) credit credit — Here’s the business model: While the rest of finance double dips, Robinhood single dips.

Flamin’ Hot Cheetos are the most controversial food in America, so owner Pepsi is giving it a promotion — Pepsi’s letting its winner ride, by spinning off Flamin’ Hot into its own brand.

Boston Consulting Group just calculated a top investment a company can make: Paid Childcare — Childcare isn’t a cost center, it’s a productivity puppy.


And this Easter, Peeps could finally pass the Reese's Peanut Butter Egg as the most popular candy #CocoaCatastrophe


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The Best One Yet - 🐊 “Florida Man issues Florida Ban” — FL bans social media for kids. Krispy Kreme signs with McDonald’s. Millennials need to retire.

Florida just banned social media for kids under 14 — Social Media has become the cigarette of the 21st century.

Krispy Kreme stock surged 30% on word McDonald’s will sell their donuts in all 13 thousand US locations — Krispy is borrowing the same strategy as Target.

And BlackRock’s Larry Fink just raised alarms about Americans and their retirement savings — Why do we invest in retirement? It lets you skip a tax payment.


Plus, we’ve got a message for our Baltimore Besties.


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The Best One Yet - 🦟 “The deadliest animal” — Anti-Mosquito startups surge. Spotify’s secret TikTok feature. BYD’s $11K ultimate electric car.

Mosquitos cause 700,000 deaths per year. They’re also just a pain. So startups are rushing to solve the bug bite problem — Because climate change is now an industry. And it’s bigger than you think

Spotify launched a TikTok-style vertical feed to discover podcasts — Next they should expand it to music. Take back what tiktok tiktook. Music discovery.

And BYD is selling a high-quality electric car in China for $11k — And that’s terrifying to US and European carmakers.


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The Best One Yet - 🍊“The Trump Stock” — DJT’s $3B stock market windfall. Loyal’s life-extending dog startup. Athleisure’s worst week.

Former president Donald Trump’s Truth Social is now a publicly traded stock — The former president turned the stock market into his GoFundMe. 

Loyal is developing a drug that may extend the life of a dog by a year — Because every generation brands health in its own image (first “dieting”, then “wellness”, now “life extension”).

And athleisure stocks suffered a truly awful Friday — Nike and Lululemon are asking for a flag: “Too many players on the field”.


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The Best One Yet - 👍 “r/ipo” — Reddit’s IPO surge. The USA sues Apple. Hidden Valley Ranch’s breakfast strategy.

Reddit, the front page of the internet, just delivered the biggest IPO of the year, and the stock rose 48% on the first day — But Reddit’s community giveth, they can also taketh away.

Apple just became the final Big Tech company to get sued by the US government — It’s not being sued for iPhone dominance, it’s being sued for abusing that dominance.

And Ranch dressing sales just beat ketchup for the 1st time in US history — Hidden Valley Ranch’s secret ingredient? Merge Research & Development… with Marketing.


Plus, Trader Joe’s just jacked up the price of bananas by 21% — Its first banana price increase in 24 years. And we thought bananas defied inflation…


$RDDT $CLX $AAPL


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The Best One Yet - 🛞 “Reinventing the Wheel” — The Tire Industry’s surprise win. Stanley’s pivot to dudes. The Fed’s interest rate holiday.

The EPA just set new rules that effectively require car companies to go 50% electric by 2030 — But the surprise winner of the electric car EV boom is tires. 

Stanley’s 40 ounce tumblers are viral with women, but now the company wants to expand to men — Ironic, because for 100 years Stanley only sold to men. 

The Federal Reserve just announced they were not changing interest rates, but predict 3 cuts by the end of the year — it got us thinking about the 1 big economic cost of the pandemic: inflation.


March Madness begins today. Know where that term came from? We’ll tell you the etymology.


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The Best One Yet - 🍨 “The Best Deal in History” — Ben & Jerry’s Unilever deal, undone. MrBeast’s Amazon game show. Nvidia CEO’s wild origin story

Unilever is spinning off its $9B ice cream biz into a separate company, they’re unwinding Ben & Jerry’s 24 years after they acquired it — We’re looking at how Ben & Jerry managed to get rich and stay king.

The biggest YouTuber on earth, MrBeast, is partnering with Amazon for the biggest game show on earth — With a $5 million prize, the game show sounds expensive. But it’s not.

And Nvidia’s CEO may be the most important person you don’t know — He hates watches, he loves Denny’s, and has a tattoo of the company’s logo on his arm… and now he’s a king-maker.


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The Best One Yet - 🍫 “Cocoa Chanel” — Chocolate’s record high price. Apple’s Siri Sacrifice. TicketMaster’s yacht concert.

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Cocoa prices rose another 25% last week to an all-time high — Wall Street noticed, because chocolate stocks now trade like luxury brands.

Apple may be killing off Siri to put Google’s AI in your iPhone — If they do, it’s a lesson Apple learned painfully: The Maps Mistake.

And Live Nation, the owner of TicketMaster, just launched concerts… on yachts — Cruise concerts capture the 3 big tailwinds of the 2024 economy.


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The Best One Yet - 🧃 “Vending Machine Millionaire” — The Passive Income side-hustle. Who should acquire TikTok? And Dick’s Sporting Goods surge.

The Senate is expected to vote on forcing TikTok to sell itself… or get banned — So we’re asking: Who should buy TikTok?

Dick’s Sporting Goods stock is at an all time high thanks to their “House of Sports” megastores — We think Dick’s should add free agent Under Armour to its roster.

And the hot new side-hustle? Vending Machines — We’re breaking down the passive income beauty of operating your own vending machine. 


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