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Mark Hebner summarizes the market's performance during the second quarter of 2026 and demonstrates the difficulty in picking the next asset class winner.

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Explore how income, consumption, and saving decisions shape your financial future using proven techniques and insights.


Market Has No Memory: Why Interrupting Compounding Costs You

Thursday, July 23, 2026Mark Hebner

Every trading day asks the same question: will markets rise or fall relative to the median? Our analysis of more than 6,600 S&P 500 trading days using a Markov Chain model — methodology available upon request — finds that the odds of tomorrow being “Up” or “Down” have historically hovered

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Trump Accounts Are Here. Should They Replace Your 529 Plan?

Wednesday, July 22, 2026David York

Learn how Trump's 530A accounts compare to 529 plans for saving for kids. Understand the benefits & differences to plan your child’s future wisely.

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Two Centuries of Evidence on Portfolio Protection and What Actually Worked

Tuesday, July 21, 2026Robin Powell

In January 2026, gold crossed $5,000 an ounce for the first time as investors rushed into the world's oldest form of portfolio protection. That same month, a study of 222 years of market history landed in the Financial Analysts Journal with an uncomfortable conclusion: the defenses investors instinctively reach for

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Vanguard's Active Funds: A Deeper Look at the Performance

Tuesday, July 21, 2026Jesse Fulton

Vanguard's known as a low-cost indexing pioneer. But how has it done as an active manager?

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The Last Universal Genius | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (PoP EP7)

Wednesday, July 15, 2026Claude Hebner | IFA.com

Discover Leibniz’s groundbreaking ideas on subjective probability and how rational belief can be measured under uncertainty.

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Pioneers of Probability: Abraham De Moivre

Thursday, July 16, 2026IFA.com

It’s London, 1733. Picture one of the greatest mathematicians of his generation — a personal friend of Isaac Newton.

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Pioneers of Probability: Jacob Bernoulli

Friday, July 10, 2026IFA.com

Flip a coin. Heads or tails? You know going in that the odds of heads is one and two.

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Pioneers of Probability: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Monday, July 6, 2026IFA.com

You already know two things about Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, born in Germany in 1646 — even if you don't know you know them.

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Richest Man in Babylon

Tuesday, June 30, 2026IFA.com

In Old Babylon, there once lived a very rich man named Arkad. Far and wide, he was famed for his great wealth.

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How an Adviser Can Rescue You From Yourself

Thursday, June 25, 2026IFA.com

Having a good adviser makes sense not only for financial reasons, but psychological ones as well.

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