Every year around this time of the year I collect and post annual Best Of lists and this is the first edition featuring the best lessons for investors, the best podcasts and songs, the best hotels, the best ETFs, the best gift guide, the best of the year on YouTube, the best drone photos and more. Enjoy the holidays and see you Friday!
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8 Lessons from Investors from 2025
1. You can be a terrible market timer and do just fine
2. Stocks are spending less time in the S&P 500
3. Just because it seems like a market signal, doesn’t mean it is one
4. Identifying winning stocks is hard. Holding winning stocks is a nightmare
5. High valuations can be followed by years of strong returns
6. The stock market can rally even when the economy is cooling
7. Earnings drive stock prices
8. Good years in the stock market tend to be great years
The Best Podcasts of 2025
The 100 Best Songs of 2025
The Best Hotels in the World: 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards
The Best and Worst New ETFs of 2025
The Anti-Sports Personality of the Year Awards 2025
50 Great Things That Happened in 2025
2025 Year on YouTube
The 2025 Atlantic Gift Guide
20 Best Photos of 2025 by GlobalGaz
And a bonus #11 entry:
Winners of the 2025 Drone Photo Awards
Comments (10)
What a Christmas present!
Thank you George.
I feel like Santa Claus…and look like him (in the beard department).
I should have a post on Friday I think.
Enjoy Christmas Sam!
Merry Christmas George!
Boy howdy! Great lists and I am now signed up for The Progress Network. What a lot of good stuff there! Thanks for these lists, George! I wish you, your family and all the readers a happy holidays and looking forward to a great and wonderful new year for all of us!
Merry Christmas for George, his family and his readers!
Merry Christmas Nick!
Trying not to go all out in the eating dept at brother in law’s place in New Jersey….but zi am losing the battle lol.
Thank you and enjoy the holidays too Carl…and see you Friday…I hope.
Thank you, to you as well…and see you Friday, I will try to keep it short…I hope 🙂
Not sure why the 3 previous replies were not slotted properly, sorry about that. Last one was a reply to DML.
New post 12/26/2025
https://travelbloggerbuzz.com/money-investing-lessons-ai-hype-correction-lawyer-billboard-ads-tallest-skyscrapers-100k-capital-one-venture-x-card/