FIREwire

  • Front Page

The List of 2020 Financial Disasters is Long

September 7, 2020 at 6:52 am EDT by Joshua Holt

Michael Batnick: “The soaring stock market coupled with the soaring unemployment has pushed income and wealth inequality to extraordinary levels. The United States has 13 million fewer jobs than it did in February. Meanwhile, last week Jeff Bezos’s net worth eclipsed $200 billion.”

Also, “a cocktail of the quarantine, free commissions, and stocks going vertical has led to an explosion of retail trading like we haven’t seen since 1999.”

FIREwire

Personal finance, investing and financial independence.

About FIREwire

Joshua Holt is the founder of FIREwire, a site that aggregates personal finance, investing and financial independence stories. He is also the creator of Biglaw Investor.

Joshua spent more than a decade as a corporate lawyer in New York City representing sovereign nations and private equity clients in mergers & acquisitions.

He earned degrees from the University of Arkansas and Boston College, while also spending a year at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. He lives in Austin with his wife and son.

Praise for FIREwire

“I can’t stop reading it.”

– A man on the street

“Concise. Relevant. To the point. FIREwire is the first site I check in the morning and the last site I check before I go to bed.”

– Joshua’s mother

“I intend to fill this with real testimonials in the future. Until then, I’ll write sentences about how I’ve always wanted a curated collection of the personal finance, investing and financial independence news of the day and I hope this site scratches that itch.”

– Joshua Holt

Copyright © 2025 · Four Minute Warning LLC