The internet is obsessed with making you rich. Here’s what it leaves out
Apparently everyone retired at 28 and can teach you how for $49.99. What profit screenshots and finfluencers leave out, and what real wealth looks like.
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November 5, 2026
Real World
Everything else worth knowing: money, mysteries and declassified files, politics, news and health, told as real-world stories with the evidence kept clear.
Dividends explained: getting paid to own stocks sounds amazing. What’s the catch?
Getting paid cash without selling your shares is attractive. But a dividend isn’t free money, and a high yield can be a warning sign. Here’s the real picture.
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Stocks, bonds, gold and cash: what does each one actually do?
Four different jobs for your money, and none of them is perfect. What stocks, bonds, gold and cash each do, and how to think about the mix.
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Why your first $1,000 matters more than you think
It probably won’t make you rich. That’s not the point. Why your first $1,000 matters, when not to invest it, and what $100 a month can turn into.
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Passive income isn’t as passive as they tell you
Everyone wants money while they sleep. Few explain what it takes to get there. The honest version of passive income: money, work, or ownership.
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The market crashed. Do you actually need to do anything?
Everything is red and everyone is shouting. Now what? The maths of losses, what history shows, and the one question that actually matters in a crash.
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If I had to learn investing all over again, this is where I’d start
Not with complicated strategies or ten stocks about to explode. After ten years, here are the 10 steps I’d follow if I had to start investing again.
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What sank the Edmund Fitzgerald? The theories, scored on evidence
The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975, with all 29 crew. Nobody knows exactly why. Here are the main theories, scored on the evidence.
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How a hair in a death mask named the Somerton Man, and what DNA still can’t tell us
In 2022, researchers named the Somerton Man as Carl “Charles” Webb using hair caught in his plaster death mask. Here’s how genetic genealogy works, in plain English, and the questions DNA can’t answer.
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Mary Celeste theories ranked by evidence: the Pylcrow Case File scorecard
Pirates, sea monsters, alcohol fumes or a broken pump? We scored every major Mary Celeste theory on the evidence, from strongest to weakest. Here’s what’s most likely to have happened in 1872.
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