Wealth Signalhttps://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/ Understand the signal. Ignore the noise. Markets, economics and money explained. en-us $10,000 in NVIDIA in 2014 is $5.4 million. The interesting number is the $523,236 you had to watch disappear.https://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/ten-thousand-nvidia-2014/https://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/ten-thousand-nvidia-2014/ The return is the least useful fact about this trade. What decided whether you collected it was a ten-month stretch in 2022 when your position fell by 63% — and you were still up thirty-fold while it happened.Wealth SignalStocks Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Before you buy NVIDIA ahead of August 26https://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/before-you-buy-nvidia/https://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/before-you-buy-nvidia/ Nine days before the most-watched earnings report on the calendar, here is what an investor should understand about the business — and what the report can and cannot tell you.Wealth SignalStocks Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:30:00 -0400 Why small caps hit a record on the day the S&P 500 fellhttps://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/russell-record-sp500-slips/https://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/russell-record-sp500-slips/ On Friday the Russell 2000 closed at an all-time high while the three big indices finished lower. The explanation is not that investors turned bullish on small companies.Wealth SignalMarkets Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:10:00 -0400 What a $5.45 trillion price tag actually assumes about NVIDIAhttps://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/nvidia-price-tag/https://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/nvidia-price-tag/ The most common argument about NVIDIA is whether it is expensive. That is the wrong question. Here is the arithmetic of what the market is currently paying for — with every assumption disclosed.Wealth SignalStocks Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:45:00 -0400 The economy is sending two signals at once. The Fed is listening to the louder one.https://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/two-signals-one-economy/https://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/two-signals-one-economy/ Payrolls fell. Retail sales fell. Inflation held at 3.4%. And three Federal Reserve officials voted to raise interest rates. Here is how those facts fit together.Wealth SignalEconomy Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:30:00 -0400 The Fed's rate is 3.5%. Your mortgage is 6.67%. Here's what sits in between.https://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/mortgage-rate-spread/https://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/mortgage-rate-spread/ Mortgage rates have barely moved in a year despite a policy rate well below them. Understanding the gap explains why waiting for the Fed to fix your housing payment is a strategy with a flaw in it.Wealth SignalReal Estate Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:00:00 -0400 $10,000 a year ago: bitcoin, gold, and the part return charts never showhttps://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/ten-thousand-bitcoin-gold/https://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/ten-thousand-bitcoin-gold/ One of these turned $10,000 into $13,115. The other turned it into $5,310. The interesting question is not which — it's what you would have had to endure to still be holding.Wealth SignalWealth Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0400 24.6%https://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/one-number-gasoline/https://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/one-number-gasoline/ Inflation is 3.4%. Gasoline is up 24.6% over the same twelve months. That gap explains almost every argument about the economy right now.Wealth SignalEconomy Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Everyone agrees earnings are booming. Here is the strongest case that they aren't.https://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/the-other-side-earnings-boom/https://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/the-other-side-earnings-boom/ S&P 500 companies grew earnings more than 50% last quarter and 86% beat expectations. Both facts are true. Neither means what the headline suggests.Wealth SignalMarkets Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0400 What 3.4% inflation actually does to money sitting in a savings accounthttps://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/inflation-and-your-savings/https://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/inflation-and-your-savings/ The arithmetic is simple, rarely done, and slightly uncomfortable. Here it is, with every assumption shown.Wealth SignalWealth Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0400 Market Autopsy: how Silicon Valley Bank died in 44 hourshttps://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/market-autopsy-svb/https://wealth-signal-alpha.vercel.app/stories/market-autopsy-svb/ A bank with $200bn in assets failed in less than two days. The cause was not fraud, and it was not a bad loan book. It was a duration mismatch, a badly sequenced announcement, and a group chat.Wealth SignalMarkets Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0400