Podcast · 452 episodes
Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing, page 2
by The Motley Fool · English
Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing is a daily podcast for stock investors. Weekday episodes offer a long-term perspective on business news with The Motley Fool's investment analysts. Weekend shows are a mix of personal finance and longer-form interviews.
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Purpose, People, and Core Pursuits: Key Ingredients to a Happy RetirementHow to build a happy retirement using “core pursuits” (purpose through regular activities), community/friendship, and a financial plan built around income investing and “SWAN money” (sleep well at…6 Sep 2026 · 25 min · 9 chapters
How Much Does It Take to Be Happy in Retirement?How much money it takes to be happy in retirement, using Wes Moss’s updated “Money Green Zone” research on retirement happiness and related habits (including anxiety about running out of money and…5 Sep 2026 · 21 min · 7 chapters
Tesla’s Robotaxi Non-Event & GPT-6 Is Here!Critiques Tesla’s robotaxi event as a “non-event”/slow rollout, then debates whether OpenAI’s early GPT-6 enterprise rollout signals real AGI and what it means for AI spending and winners; briefly…4 Sep 2026 · 41 min · 12 chapters
Is the Data Center Investing Trend in Trouble?Whether the data center investing boom is slowing, plus a stock check on Snowflake and a listener portfolio-construction question.3 Sep 2026 · 25 min · 10 chapters
Tesla Robotaxi Day & the Competition’s ResponseTesla’s upcoming “robotaxi” event and whether it signals real, scaled deployment; comparison to competitors (Waymo, Uber) and the vision-only vs multi-sensor debate.2 Sep 2026 · 18 min · 9 chapters
Big Tech Gets the Regulatory ShakedownBig Tech regulatory pressure across Amazon, Meta, and Apple’s leadership transition; focus on FTC/antitrust claims, child-safety settlements, and what new Apple CEO John Ternus must deliver.1 Sep 2026 · 20 min · 5 chapters
A $13 Billion Bet on Robots?The episode discusses a reported $13 billion NVIDIA acquisition of Hugging Face and how it could relate to robotics via Hugging Face’s MicroDuck.31 Aug 2026 · 28 min · 10 chapters
Not All Revenue Growth Is Created Equal — A Harvard Fellow's Framework for Spotting the Real ThingHow to distinguish genuine demand/product-market fit from “manufactured” revenue growth driven by sales and marketing spend, using Rob Snyder’s pull vs push framework from his book The Power of Pull.30 Aug 2026 · 21 min · 10 chapters
Prepare to Pass on Your PossessionsEstate planning essentials—how to ensure assets transfer quickly and efficiently, reduce probate, update wills, consider trusts, and create a “financial vault” inventory for executors/guardians…29 Aug 2026 · 29 min · 11 chapters
Jensen Huang's AI Capex Pulse CheckNVIDIA’s AI capex outlook, hyperscaler free-cash-flow vs capex, and how investors should think about valuation; then cybersecurity “Mythos” fallout and CrowdStrike vs peers; plus turnaround-style…28 Aug 2026 · 41 min · 18 chapters
NVIDIA Earnings Blow Everyone AwayNVIDIA’s earnings and guidance shock the market, highlighting supply constraints and accelerating AI infrastructure spending; the episode then connects those themes to “picks and shovels”…27 Aug 2026 · 28 min · 11 chapters
Meta Platforms Settles Major Lawsuit, Pays $18 BillionThe episode discusses Meta’s $17B settlement with 47 states over claims Facebook/Instagram were designed to be addictive to children.26 Aug 2026 · 20 min · 7 chapters
Dick’s Sporting Goods has a Foot Locker ProblemDick’s Sporting Goods’ earnings miss and guidance cut, driven mainly by its 2024 acquisition of Foot Locker, plus a broader “turnaround/value” discussion covering Walker & Dunlop, CVS Health, and UPS.25 Aug 2026 · 24 min · 10 chapters
1 Earnings Report That Could Move the MarketNVIDIA’s upcoming earnings as a market-moving catalyst, plus data-center buildout risk (overbuilding vs Jevons paradox) and how acquisitions affect target-stock investors.24 Aug 2026 · 26 min · 8 chapters
America Is 10x Behind China in AI Infrastructure — The CEO Building the SolutionThe episode argues the AI race is constrained less by algorithms/chips and more by electricity and AI data-center power infrastructure. It claims the U.S.23 Aug 2026 · 30 min · 9 chapters
Crucial Steps for the “Pre-Go” Years Before RetirementRetirement planning “pre-go” years (about 10 years before retirement), emphasizing both emotional readiness and financial mechanics.22 Aug 2026 · 30 min · 15 chapters
Cancer Vaccines & Data Center DramaThe episode covers two main themes: macro interest-rate/debt dynamics and “drama” around data centers, plus major stock/market picks.21 Aug 2026 · 41 min · 11 chapters
Is AI the Answer to Big-Box Retail’s Woes?Earnings-season check on big-box retailers’ results and whether “agentic AI” can drive consumer shopping; then a shift to autonomous drone delivery (Uber + Zipline); ends with a mailbag question on…20 Aug 2026 · 30 min · 11 chapters
Behind The Most Exciting Stock Pop In Years!Retail and biotech stock catalysts—Target’s turnaround progress, Moderna’s personalized cancer vaccine phase 3 results, and market implications from OpenAI and Anthropic growth/IPO chatter.19 Aug 2026 · 20 min · 5 chapters
The Bond Market Selloff is Showing up in Earnings ReportsA global bond-yield selloff is pushing long-term rates higher (20-year highs in several countries), driven mainly by market expectations of “higher for longer,” heavy government/corporate debt…18 Aug 2026 · 23 min · 12 chapters
Berkshire Hathaway Hasn’t Done This in Over 3 YearsBerkshire Hathaway’s Q2 shift from being a net seller to a net buyer after 14 straight quarters, and what that signals about CEO Greg Abel’s capital allocation; plus a mailbag on how Hidden Gems uses…17 Aug 2026 · 29 min · 11 chapters
Mastercard CEO: AI Shopping Agents, Machine-to-Machine Payments, and the New Infrastructure of CommerceMasterCard CEO Michael Miebach discusses “agentic commerce” (AI shopping agents), “AgentPay” for agent-to-party payments, and “AgentPay for Machines” for B2B machine-to-machine micro-payments, plus…16 Aug 2026 · 27 min · 13 chapters
How Your Social Security Benefit Is Actually CalculatedHow Social Security benefits are calculated, including the 35 highest-earning years rule, AIME, bend points, primary insurance amount (PIA), claiming-age adjustments, COLA, and how to estimate…15 Aug 2026 · 13 min · 8 chapters
IPO Fever Heats Up For OpenAI and AnthropicThe episode discusses two themes: (1) the rush toward IPOs for OpenAI and Anthropic and whether their growth-at-all-costs model can become profitable, and (2) other investing “hidden gems” including…14 Aug 2026 · 42 min · 17 chapters