JAKE W. LITTLE

BREAKING: FBI Boston Division has announced charges against 30 individuals involved in a major global insider trading scheme that generated tens of millions of dollars in illicit profits. The defendants, who include corporate attorneys and other financial professionals, are alleged to have stolen and used confidential information on nearly 30 merger and acquisition deals from several of the nation’s premier law firms, including a firm headquartered in Massachusetts.

Being a parent is great. You guys should have kids. I really mean it. You guys should have as many kids as you can

Alex Hormozi reacts to a founder trying to go from $150K a month to $15M a month with 5 ads a week Caller: "We’re making $150K a month and want to get to $15M a month, but we’re only making 5 new ads a week" Alex: "We’re putting out 250 per day, We’re at 1,500 per week and you’re at 5" "Ads need to go from 5 a week to 100 as a baseline, and I’d want you spending $5K a day. Right now you’re spending $1.3K"

Warren Buffett just warned that the US dollar could collapse and admitted he doesn't understand most of the stock market anymore. 95 years old, sitting on $380 billion in cash, and the first time watching from the sidelines instead of actively investing. And what he revealed at this weekend's Berkshire shareholder meeting is genuinely concerning: On the market, Buffett didn't hold back. He compared it to "a church with a casino attached" and said the casino has never been more packed. On one-day options: "That is not investing. It's not speculating. It's gambling. Totally." He pointed to the Avis short squeeze THIS WEEK. A rental car company that's been around for 50 years getting meme-squeezed in 2026. The same behavior that blew up retail traders with GameStop is back, except now it's hitting boring legacy companies with zero business being volatile. "We have lots more regulation now, but people spend their time figuring out how to get around the rules rather than follow the rules." That one sentence explains more about the current market than every CNBC segment combined. When asked why he's hoarding $380 billion instead of investing it, Buffett said something no one expected: "I understand fewer of the businesses as a percentage of the whole than I did 10 years ago. I have not learned new industries for some years. I'm not going to have an edge on a whole bunch of younger people that have actually grown up with it." Think about what he's actually saying... This is a man who made $140 billion by understanding businesses better than anyone alive. And he's telling you the current market is so detached from reality that even HE can't make sense of what's being valued and why. He quoted IBM's Tom Watson Sr.: "I'm smart in spots and I stay around those spots." In 60 years of managing money, he said MAYBE five were "really juicy." Five out of sixty. That means 92% of his career was spent WAITING while everyone else gambled. And he still ended up richer than all of them. Then the conversation turned to inflation and that's where it gets really interesting: Buffett said America is "not immune" from runaway inflation. He brought up countries that went bankrupt "six or seven times" in his lifetime. Compared today to right before Volcker had to rescue the dollar, when Americans were borrowing at 12% to buy farmland earning 6% because they believed the dollar would disappear. "Cash is trash" was the mentality. Nebraska farmers collapsed because of it. Entire communities wiped out not by a recession but by a BELIEF that the currency was dying. And Buffett sees that same energy building again. Then someone asked the question everyone wanted answered: Do you see a crash coming? "If you saw it coming, it wouldn't happen. The things people are talking about and thinking about? It's not going to happen. But there are things that can come out of the blue." He compared it to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 that triggered World War I. Nobody was discussing or anticipating it. But it changed the world overnight. "That's particularly true now because of the things that can come out of the sky." A 95yo man who has survived every crash, every war, every crisis of the last six decades just told you the market is a casino, the dollar isn't safe, and the real collapse will be something nobody sees coming. $380 billion in cash is his answer because he believes things are about to get much worse.

Winston Churchill used to lay 200 bricks per day to keep his mind busy when feeling down. Depression hates a moving target.

Agency vs in-house is the wrong question. The right question is what are you actually buying. Agency benefits: We see what works and what doesn't across dozens of accounts weekly. Those tests that win roll out across the agency. You see one. When your account breaks we've already fixed it three times this quarter for other brands. The best media buyers are at agencies. A brand running one account can't pay them enough. A buyer managing $15 monthly across clients makes real money. Your single account can't compete. You get a full team for the cost of one senior hire. For example at DREAMLABS you get 6 people for what one good media buyer plus benefits costs. Normally that team runs 60k a month minimum. Agencies show up with systems on day one. A new in-house hire is waiting for you to build their process unless that's explicitly their role. We bring playbooks and infrastructure that already work. In-house benefits: You get 40 full hours. Agency time splits across multiple clients. Most brands don't actually have 40 hours of media work per week so they fill the role with other tasks that aren't the hire's specialty. Your person lives in the brand. They know product roadmap, customer complaints, internal politics, they learn about it everyday. An agency account manager doesn't until they have been with the brand 6+ months. In house execution is usually faster when things break. You need to kill a campaign because inventory delayed walk over to the person or call their phone. Your in-house person does it asap. Agency requires slack messaging and wait time. Neither is better. It's what your business actually needs at that time and whether you can afford to do it right.