I'm writing this from our corner rental unit in the heart of Edinburgh, Scotland, which the locals pronounce "Ed-In-Bruh." My 16-year-old daughter Josie is a massive Harry Potter fan and has dreamed of visiting the UK since she was a little girl. We finally decided to make her dream come true. Our ten-day trip began in London and will end in a few days when we leave Scotland. Some of the Potter things we've done: taking a private filming location tour in London, Oxford, and medieval Lacock...

I can't believe it. I'm actually going to be selling The Vanguard Total Stock Market Fund (VTI) this week. I know, I know. This is the same guy who has been preaching VTI as if it were the gospel of investing. The same fund that's making my wife look like a stock market genius when she started automatically investing $50 a week in December 2023 and has a 28.08% gain as of June 2025. The same VTI that I call the "easy button" for anyone who wants to own the entire US stock market without...

I decided to buy an exploratory position last week in the world's leading animal health company, Zoetis (ZTS), because of something that Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner once said. To paraphrase David, he said that if you have conviction in a stock, you should buy it, but in three blocks with the money you set aside for the purchase. If the stock price goes up after you buy, then you purchased the first block at a discount. But if the price goes down, then you can buy the next block...