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Hannah Moore, CFP and founder of Amplified Planning and Guiding Wealth, shares her experience building firms and training new planners. She discusses how the planning industry is changing. She covers differences between asset-management and hourly planners. She explains where to find fee-only fiduciary planners and what questions and red flags to watch for when choosing one.

Lou Whiteman, market historian and energy watcher, and Andy Cross, tech- and sector-focused analyst, break down a swift market correction. They cover soaring oil and recession risk, AI’s cooling hype, sector rotation and index effects, investor psychology, and historical recovery patterns. Short, sharp takes on which stocks and themes are drawing capital now.

Jon Quast, tech and markets analyst, and Matt Frankel, investing and personal finance analyst, discuss AI moving from brute force to efficiency. They cover ARM’s shift and custom silicon, Google’s TurboQuant memory claim, data-center power limits, and why efficiency matters for AI scale. Plus a mailbag on automatic investing versus buying dips.

Rachel Warren, tech and AI analyst who breaks down OpenAI moves, and Lou Whiteman, investment analyst with a long-term tech and crypto lens. They cover OpenAI shutting down Sora and its video models. They discuss congressional action on stablecoins and market fallout for Coinbase and Circle. They dig into Amazon’s recent robotics buys and what automation could mean for logistics.

Travis Hoium, Motley Fool contributor who focuses on AI and markets, and Lou Whiteman, longtime Motley Fool tech and market analyst, discuss the rapid scaling of autonomy in 2026. They cover OpenAI’s monetization struggles and which companies may win at AI. They map where autonomous driving and delivery are actually advancing and which business models and suppliers look most promising.

Rachel Warren, investment analyst who covers physical AI and healthcare robotics, and Matt Frankel, long-term focused investment analyst, discuss Elon Musk's Terafab announcement and its audacious chip-fab vision. They debate feasibility and technical hurdles. They also highlight secular growth themes like quantum computing, energy swings, and surgical robotics to watch going forward.

Phil Gilbert, entrepreneur and former IBM general manager who led a major cultural overhaul, shares his playbook for real transformation. He breaks down red flags of hollow change and why mandates fail. He explains the 25% tipping point for cultural adoption. He highlights which metrics investors should track, including a novel focus on revenue per token.

Matt Frankel, a certified financial planner and real estate expert, explains The Motley Fool’s Best Places to Retire report. He highlights why quality of life and activities top the list. They discuss county-level rankings, surprising inclusions, regional trends like Florida’s strength, and practical relocation considerations such as healthcare, testing a move, and balancing social ties and second-home strategies.

Jon Quast, investment analyst who breaks down market mechanics, and Lou Whiteman, long-term market thinker focused on consumer and tech stocks. They discuss how the Iran war is driving oil and input costs, supply versus supply-chain damage, which resilient business categories and big-cap names to watch, and their Final Four picks from major stocks.

Jon Quast, investment analyst focused on transportation and autonomous vehicles. Matt Frankel, investment analyst who covers tech and semiconductors. They dig into Micron’s blockbuster quarter and why the market shrugged. They unpack Uber’s Rivian autonomous-vehicle tie-up. They examine Alibaba’s ambitious $100B AI revenue target and what it means for global AI investing.