The daily weigh-in of the world’s biggest money.

Every morning we take the largest sum in the news and put it
on the scale. Then we run the same math on a stake your size.

Weighed daily.
Math shown.
In every issue
IOn the scale IIWhat built it IIIThe napkin IVAt your scale
On the scale: today’s sum Every figure checkable Fewer zeros. Same math.
Every edition, in this order

One sum. Four beats. Every morning.

On the scaleThe size, felt first.

The day’s sum goes down on the scale. You feel the weight before you parse the zeros.

What built itThe machine behind the pile.

The stake, the deal, the decades. What had to go right for the number to get this big.

The napkinEvery step on the page.

Doubling time, the hourly rate, the multiple. Inputs shown, so you can run it yourself.

At your scaleThe same math, your size.

We run the same law on a stake like yours. When the machine does not transfer, we say so.

Losses weighed with the same care.
A recent specimen

A civic favor, weighed twenty-nine years later.

In 1997 Paul Allen bought the Seahawks so Seattle would keep its team. His estate just agreed to sell. We put the price on the scale and worked out what the rescue earned by the year.

Figures frozen from the launch sample; not current.

$194M
$388M
$776M
$1.55B
$3.1B
$6.2B
$9.6B
full sixth:
$12.4B
1997×2×4×8×16×322026
≈ 5.6
doublings
 ≈ 5.2 yrs
per doubling
 ≈ 49.5×
the 1997 price
What goes on the scale

The largest sum in the news,
whatever shape it takes.

01

The fortune

A pile that jumped overnight, and the arithmetic of how.

02

The buyback

A share repurchase the size of a small country’s economy.

03

The streak

Dividend checks that have not missed a quarter since Eisenhower.

04

The wreckage

On the days the machine runs in reverse, we weigh that too. Same care, no gloating.

The bridge

A 401(k) runs on the same engine as a 160-billion-dollar fortune.

Buffett's lever times his shares. Your lever times yours. Compounding is back-loaded: the heavy dollars come off the biggest base, and your base has never been bigger.

BaseYear oneDoubles in · same law, any base · 10% a year
$160B
$16B
7.3 YRS
$1M
$100K
7.3 YRS
$250K
$25K
7.3 YRS
$50K
$5K
7.3 YRS

History, about ten percent a year: the market’s long average. Slower money doubles slower.

House rules

What you will not find at this counter.

We weigh, you decide. The runout at your size is arithmetic on history, never a promise about your account.

No tips.1 No forecasts.2 No rich-list recaps.3 No morals.4

1No picks, no buy or sell calls, ever.
2We weigh what already happened.
3A ranking is a list. We bring the math.
4The size is the show. Nobody gets a lecture.

The steep part of the curve

is the part you are standing on. Take the front-row seat, one sum every morning, and check our math whenever you like.

×4×8×12×16×1YEAR 01020YEAR 30 ×2×4×8×16 ×17.4 YOU ARE HERE
Doubles every ≈ 7.3 yrs at 10% a yearHistory, about ten percent a year