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Money and Inspiration Weekly Notes cover for July 4, 2026, covering strong year to date returns for the major stock indexes despite recent volatility, Meta’s pivot to selling AI cloud compute as a response to the Magnificent Seven capex selloff, and two inspirational stories of impossible feats accomplished this week.

Weekly Notes — July 4, 2026

Happy Fourth of July weekend. Some quick housekeeping before we get started. The U.S. stock market was closed Friday for the Fourth of July holiday, so this week’s official close is Thursday July 2. On to the notes. I  will…

Money and Inspiration Weekly Notes cover for June 27, 2026, covering the Nasdaq Composite's five-day losing streak driven by chip stocks, SpaceX's July 7 addition to the Nasdaq 100 index and what that means for passive index investors, and the Iran ceasefire that fell apart before reaching implementation.

Weekly Notes — June 27, 2026

Quick note before we get started. This was a very tough week personally. Some hard news on the medical front along with some other challenges. It will never compare to the bad week, weeks, months and years when Isabella passed…