Visualize the world's top 50 private equity firms in 2025 by capital raised.

Explore the 2025 Uber Lost & Found Index to find out the weirdest items that passengers left behind in Ubers last year, from ten live lobsters to a mannequin head with human hair.

Charlie Munger was Warren Buffett's right-hand man, serving as vice-chair at Berkshire Hathaway until his death in 2023.

The average salary for Harvard MBA grads within 3 months of graduating is $193,837.

Learn about what causes economic bubbles, including how forces like cheap credit, soaring optimism, and feedback loops push asset prices far beyond fundamentals—until a single shock triggers panic, selling, and a rapid collapse.

Before starting Apple, Steve Jobs cold-called HP at 12 years old and got a summer job.

Mark Zuckerberg said some of the details in 'The Social Network' movie were spot-on—but most of the story arcs were inaccurate.

Learn about CD ladders, the investing strategy in which one buys multiple CDs with different maturity dates to capitalize on high interest rates with longer-term CDs while keeping liquidity with shorter-term CDs.

Nike only paid $35 for its famous swoosh logo—and cofounder Phil Knight didn't like it at first.

Fort Knox was originally built to be a secure facility for the US Treasury's gold reserves back when the US still operated under the gold standard, a system in which a country's currency is pegged to, and can be converted into, a fixed amount of gold.

The US government is legally allowed to borrow money from the Social Security Trust Fund surpluses as long as it issues Treasury bonds to the Trust Fund in return and repays those bonds with interest when Social Security needs the money to pay benefits.

See how SpaceX compares to history's other largest IPOs.

Visualize tipping norms around the world with this map that reveals the US tips more service providers and leaves larger amounts than anywhere else globally.

'The consumer isn't a moron, she's your wife' is among David Ogilvy's most memorable pieces of advertising advice.

Opponents of the federal estate tax began using the term 'death tax' in the 1940s to sway public opinion.

When Steve Jobs recruited former CEO Tim Cook to work at Apple in 1998, the company was on the verge of bankruptcy—and many of Cook's friends advised him not to take the job.

The 'Gruen transfer' refers to the price psychology behind large shopping malls, where shoppers make spontaneous purchases due to the overwhelming exposure to a variety of stores.

Listen to this podcast episode detailing the origin story of Wall Street's famous bronze Charging Bull statue.

Queens, New York housewife Jean Nidetch founded Weight Watchers in 1963 after someone mistook her for being pregnant.

From Ozempic to Wegovy, see the $58B weight loss drug market visualized in one chart.

Visualize where the first batch of founders from the famous startup accelerator Y Combinator are now.

Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 after initially attempting to purchase ballistic missiles in Europe and Russia, hoping to launch a rocket carrying a plant or animal to Mars to spark global interest in colonizing the planet, but found them too expensive.

Before the Great Recession, lax requirements to get a mortgage resulted in mass defaults that left nearly 19 million homes vacant.

A Yale student wrote a profound essay about the consulting industry's influence on elite college students that was published in a book of her writing after she died in a post-graduation car accident.

Watch this video that uses Lego bricks to explain how venture capital works.

See a ranking of the best (and worst) Federal Reserve Chairs since 1914 out of the 16 men and women who have held the office since.

The first steps to rebuilding your credit score include getting to know exactly what's on your credit report and figuring out how far you are from the '700 club,' or 'good score' range.

Some coin denominations have ridges etched on their sides, partly to prevent counterfeiting, in a practice called 'reeding.'

Play the role of a student in a game where you try to navigate college and remain debt-free, selecting different income levels, high school experience, race, ethnicity, and more.

The most expensive ad of all time was for Chanel No. 5 perfume and cost roughly $33M to produce in 2004—about $57M in today's dollars.

While the first exchange-traded fund (a 'basket' of different assets that can be bought and sold on a stock exchange) in the US only launched in 1993, the global ETF market has grown to more than $10T in the short time since.

See how Budweiser's famous Clydesdales spend their days at Warm Springs Ranch, where roughly 70 to 80 of the beer brand's giant horses can be found at any given time.

Children are now three times more likely to say they want to be a YouTuber when they grow up than an astronaut, with some even attending 'YouTube camps' that teach kids how to create content for the platform.

When a Paris department store hesitated to sell Estée Lauder's perfume, she 'accidentally' broke a bottle, causing the smell to spread throughout the store and shoppers to start asking to buy the scent.

Use this tool to calculate the dollar value of your parental mental load, from meal planning to coordinating after-school care, then see resources that help generate solutions.

SpaceX's S-1 or 'prospectus' revealed many previously unknown details about the company, including its unprofitability despite doing $18.7B in revenue in 2025, exactly how many voting shares Elon Musk will have in the company (roughly 85%), and more.

Learn how to read a prospectus, the juicy document that any company must file with the SEC before going public.

In its famous catalog, Sears sold $600 DIY house kits from 1908 through the 1940s, resulting in an estimated 100,000 'Sears and Roebuck homes.'

The price of gas is a composite made up of several different factors, with the federal gas tax making up less than 20% of what drivers pay at the pump.

US housing costs have risen by roughly 175% between 1991 and 2026—but a growing number of Gen Zers are becoming homeowners anyway. In 2025, 4% of homebuyers were Gen Z, up from 3% the year before.

US consumers collectively owe more than $1T to credit card companies—almost as much as they owe in auto loans.

In 2025, four executives from large tech companies were given positions in the US Army Reserves—including Palantir Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar, which reinforced Palantir's ties with the US military and its role as a leading defense partner.

Warren Buffett's former professor Benjamin Graham is known as the 'father of value investing,' a strategy in which investors seek to buy stocks trading below their intrinsic worth.

Memecoins are a type of cryptocurrency—a form of digital currency with a wide variety of uses—created around popular 'memes,' or viral internet jokes.

The Nasdaq's 'Magnificent 7' companies are responsible for roughly 40% of the Nasdaq 100 index's gains, while the remaining 93 companies account for the other 60%.

Hedge funds, the private investment firms that trade a wide swath of financial assets, make money by imposing steep fees on investors and from the fund's investment performance.

An initial public offering or 'IPO' is the process of a private company becoming public by putting shares of the company on the stock market for purchase.