Recent Common Sense Episodes…
The Biggest Hedge Fund Blow-Up EXPLAINED
This week, Dana and Anthony pick apart the wildest financial story of the summer: a 24-year-old former OpenAI researcher who turned a single essay into a hedge fund worth tens of billions of dollars, then watched most of it disappear in about a month. ...
Buy Now Pay Later - The New Debt Dilemma
This week, Dana and Anthony look at the new backbone of the American economy: splitting a $12 carton of eggs into four "interest-free" payments. Buy Now, Pay Later started as a way for college kids to buy sneakers they couldn't afford yet. It's now a f...
What Happens If (When) the AI Bubble Bursts?
This week's episode asks the question every index fund investor is quietly avoiding: what happens when Silicon Valley's favorite money-burning machine finally runs out of fuel? Tech giants now make up 35% of the S&P 500 — the same nosebleed concentrati...
Where is America's Gold?
Is Fort Knox Empty, or Just Playing Dumb? Anthony and Dana tackle America's favorite conspiracy theory this week: is the gold actually in Fort Knox, or did somebody swap it out for gold-painted bricks decades ago? Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went ...
Global MAGA: Wrecking Ball or Political Virus?
Are world leaders running their countries, or just auditioning for a global franchise of the Trump show? This week, we take apart the populist wave sweeping the planet, from Javier Milei's chainsaw economics in Argentina to Daniel Noboa's iron-fist cra...
Should the USA Go Back to the Gold Standard?
Gold used to back every dollar in your pocket. Then, in 1971, Nixon cut the cord and the dollar became a promise instead of a receipt. Half a century later, the question keeps coming back: was that a mistake? Gold bugs say fiat money is why your grocer...