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Katherine Sullivan

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WSJ Minute Briefing
Stocks Rally Following Trump’s War-Progress Comments

and Eric Trump, are investing in another drone company, Powerus.

WSJ Minute Briefing
Stocks Rally Following Trump’s War-Progress Comments

And Roche shares fell nearly 3% after the Swiss pharmaceutical company said a late-stage study for an experimental breast cancer treatment missed its primary objective.

WSJ Minute Briefing
Stocks Rally Following Trump’s War-Progress Comments

Heads up, an artificial intelligence tool helped us make this episode by creating summaries that were based on WSJ reporting and then reviewed and adapted by an editor.

WSJ Minute Briefing
Stocks Rally Following Trump’s War-Progress Comments

We'll have a lot more coverage of the day's news on the WSJ's What's News podcast.

WSJ Minute Briefing
Stocks Rally Following Trump’s War-Progress Comments

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WSJ What’s News
America's Road to a DIY Retirement

So, Jason Zweig, what is a tontine?

WSJ What’s News
America's Road to a DIY Retirement

Jason Zweig writes the Intelligent Investor column at the Wall Street Journal.

WSJ What’s News
America's Road to a DIY Retirement

He spends a lot of time thinking about how people invest and how they used to invest.

WSJ What’s News
America's Road to a DIY Retirement

You may have heard about tontines from popular culture.

WSJ What’s News
America's Road to a DIY Retirement

They've been the subject of an episode of The Simpsons.

WSJ What’s News
America's Road to a DIY Retirement

We're in the animated television show Archer, and we're also the subject of a 1966 movie called The Wrong Box, starring Michael Caine.

WSJ What’s News
America's Road to a DIY Retirement

No, never said.

WSJ What’s News
America's Road to a DIY Retirement

And he did it because he wanted me to have the tontine.

WSJ What’s News
America's Road to a DIY Retirement

Tontines originated in Europe, but became popular as a financial tool in the early years of American independence.

WSJ What’s News
America's Road to a DIY Retirement

Alexander Hamilton even proposed using a tontine system as a way to manage and fund national debt.

WSJ What’s News
America's Road to a DIY Retirement

His plan wasn't approved, and Tantines eventually lost popularity due to fraud and corruption.

WSJ What’s News
America's Road to a DIY Retirement

They also had a bad reputation in popular culture.

WSJ What’s News
America's Road to a DIY Retirement

But before they fell out of fashion, Tantines were some of the earliest tools that people used for retirement.

WSJ What’s News
America's Road to a DIY Retirement

Today, Americans no longer resort to tontines for retirement.

WSJ What’s News
America's Road to a DIY Retirement

We rely instead on three main pillars of savings.