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Weekly Intel
Stay current with top news from the business, money, and investing world.
Top Stories
🧔🏽♀️ Stocks tumbled last week, and here is my cavewoman explanation for why: More jobs. No rate cuts. Borrow money expensive. Profit Sad. Stock go down. “Safe” investments look good. Sell risky stocks fast. Big news, big gains, cash out, market fall. (more)
📻 Oldies but goodies… for the youths: New data show that younger listeners are increasingly streaming older music, with about a quarter of 13–24-year-olds saying they mostly listen to music from the '90s or earlier. Why is this happening? I’ll give you one guess, and it rhymes with bik-bok. (more)
🎉 It’s a (hiring) party in the USA: The month of May saw nearly double the added jobs predicted by analysts, most of them coming from the FIFA World Cup. But we still can’t shake that pesky inflation. (more)
By the numbers
🍧172,000: how many jobs the US economy added in May. Around 171,000 were snow cone shack operators. I’m pretty sure. (more)
🎮 20 million: how many units of the Switch 2 Nintendo sold in its first year. Happy birthday, little guy. (more)
⚽ $9.6 billion: how much FIFA thinks that hosting the World Cup will inject into the US economy. Fútbol is life! (more)
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The Financial Rebellion Way
Setting you free from traditional budgeting
Traditional budgeting is broken. It makes you feel poor, restricted, stressed, and ashamed. Time to rebel against the budget police and create something that actually works.
Your rebellion against budget tyranny:
Budgeting is incorrectly framed as a test of willpower. Overspending is seen as a personal failure. In the words of poet Taylor Swift, shake it off!
Rename the game: Stop calling it a budget—it’s your Monthly Cash Flow Battle Plan, your Rebellion Blueprint, your Anti-Budget Budget, or your Freedom Plan.
Escape the rigid rules: Life doesn’t fit into “strict adherence to guidelines like the 50-30-20 rule.” Your money plan should bend with your life, not break it.
Budgeting is strategic warfare against financial mediocrity. You’re a commander…and you’re not going to adhere to restrictive rules anymore. It’s choosing to make budgeting feel empowering and rebellious rather than restrictive and boring.
Markets - stocks and crypto
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Prices for the week ending June 5, 2026:
▼ S&P 500 | 7,384 | -2.50% |
▼ NASDAQ | 25,709 | -4.58% |
▼ GOLD | 4,321 | -4.26% |
▲ NINTENDO (NTDOY) | 11.51 | +3.41% |
▼ LULULEMON (LULU) | 114.23 | -13.59% |
▼ BITCOIN (BTC) | 62,958 | -2.01% |
▼ ETHEREUM (ETH) | 1,768 | -8.24% |
Stock and Crypto Moves
Don’t let this ruin your summer: As mentioned earlier, a stronger-than-expected jobs report spooked investors into thinking interest rate cuts won't happen anytime soon, which — combined with some investors cashing out their recent gains — sent tech stocks sharply lower, with the Nasdaq dropping over 2%. (more)
Looking to Switch it up: The Switch 2 is now the fastest-selling console in history, but rising costs across the industry are making experts wonder if it might be the last affordable, mass-market console ever made. (more)
Hold on to your stretchy pants: Lululemon's stock fell sharply after the company slashed its sales and profit forecasts for the year, citing weak performance in North America, tariff costs, and product launches that didn't connect with customers as the brand hoped. (more)
High Hopes: Cannabis company Trulieve is set to become the first US marijuana company ever to list on a major American stock exchange, the NYSE. Is it worth waiting a whole year to launch on 4/20? (more)
Amid falling crypto prices: a new crypto hype is on the rise. Read more about it here.
Real Money Moves
Each week, we feature a reader’s smartest and dumbest money moves. We’re all in this together; let’s learn from each other.
Brayden, 22 - Cincinnati, Ohio
Best Money Move - Shooting for grant opportunities
“My best money move, this one’s tailored towards my business, is just shooting for the moon on grant opportunities.”
“We won a couple of grants in the past that you never could imagine a 22-year-old to win, but we applied, did our best, and we actually got them.”
“[Those grants] really kicked off our business.”
Worst Money Move - Bitcoin leverage loss
“I had a buddy who got pretty heavily involved with Bitcoin and Ethereum. And it was February of last year, 2025. And he came to me and was like, dude, Bitcoin’s about to go through the roof. There’s never been a down February on an odd year.”
“At that point, I should have already seen what was coming.”
“But he convinced me we put some money in and lost way more than I was comfortable losing. So that was very…unfortunate.”
Got a money win or financial faceplant? Send it in. You might help someone dodge a mistake or make a smarter call.
Side Hustle Differently
Each week, we focus on money-making opportunities for a side hustle that could potentially become a full-time venture. No MLM schemes, no “passive income” lies, just real strategies for stacking cash outside your 9-5.
The Saturn Sports Story
What it is: Two college seniors turned a helmet safety problem into a tech startup that landed $276,000 in funding.
Your startup playbook:
The Patent Hack: License existing patents from universities or the military—Brayden Shepard licensed Army tech for smart closures that became their chin strap innovation.
The Grant Game: Brayden applied for a $200K state grant, got rejected, then won $76K at a pitch competition. Used that momentum to reapply and nail the grant the second time. Persistence pays in six figures.
The Pivot Power: When liability issues killed their football market dreams, they didn’t quit—they pivoted to motorcycle helmets, where 440,000 annual casualties need their solution.
Big picture: Brayden went from selling University of Dayton street signs door-to-door to negotiating with helmet manufacturers. The difference? He treated failure as data, grants as oxygen, and learning as his competitive advantage. And now he’s saving lives while living the one he wants to.
Check out the Financial Rebellion podcast to learn about how to turn your passion into profit.
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David vs. Goliath Energy: Big traditional banks primarily exist to serve shareholders while credit unions exist to serve their members.
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Todd Romer: Founder and Writer
Corinne Clarkson: Writer and Editor
Dallin Merrill: Chief Newsletter Overlord
Disclaimer: The advice provided in Financial Rebellion is not considered to be financial or legal advice of any kind. It is your responsibility to dig deeper on any opinions or recommendations given.