Wealth & Means — “Cut the Card? Patch the Future.”This week we surface the stories you didn’t see: shrinking Tibetan schools in exile, FAA flight trims amid a shutdown, a zero-fatality Kamchatka quake, the AI-meets-media makeover, and the rise of mesh Wi-Fi, craft kits, and… mushrooms. “Wake Up Ready” previews a macro-heavy week (Treasury auctions, CPI/PPI, FOMC minutes, earnings from Disney/Cisco/Walmart, energy data). Our Knowledge Bomb teaches first-card basics: pay in full, treat rewards as a bonus, and dodge “compound-interest purgatory.” “Humor Me” features a dolphin tattoo named Fin-terest and a two-goat lesson on borrowing. Then “The Greater Debate” pits Ramit Sethi’s “cut the card” against Samuel L. Jackson’s “use it, don’t abuse it.” We close with Invent Again: Alejandro Zaffaroni’s transdermal patch—how smart delivery turned a garage idea into a platform for modern therapeutics. Sponsored by Nost Moments. (https://nostmoments.io)Produced by https://wealthandmeans.com https://x.com/WealthandMeans  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSNrIdqV_QfwtOZu18f6_WA 

Today’s episode is stacked: “What You Didn’t See in the News,” your five-minute head start in “Wake Up Ready,” a Knowledge Bomb on laziness, “Humor Me,” “The Greater Debate,” and we’ll close with our Invent Again.

This episode explores hidden stories, emerging market trends, and the intersection of gratitude, technology, and innovation. Through a mix of cultural insight, economic context, and invention storytelling, it connects the emotional and mechanical forces that shape progress.

This week on Wealth & Means, we explore what happens when technology, trade, and time collide. From China’s rare-earth squeeze to AI’s moral dilemma, this episode is a full-stack tour through the forces defining the 2020s.

Wealth and Means In this episode of Wealth and Means, we explore diverse topics designed to sharpen your mind and expand your horizons. Special thanks to our sponsor: https://nostmoments.io/  00:00 Introduction to Wealth and Means 00:57 What You Didn’t See in the News 05:28 Wake Up Ready: The Week Ahead 09:17 Knowledge Bomb: Roth IRA Essentials 11:32 Humor Me: AI and Espresso 12:41 The Greater Debate: Who Owns the Future of Intelligence? 19:50 Invent Again: Xiaowei Zhuang’s Revolutionary Work 25:00 Conclusion and Farewell https://x.com/WealthandMeans https://www.wealthandmeans.com/