# Money Guy Mutants > Money Guy Mutants builds free, interactive decision-support tools for life's biggest choices, starting with personal finance. We pair interactive calculators (compound interest, retirement strategy, budget, debt paydown, S-Corp tax optimization, geographic arbitrage, and more) with long-form articles that explain the reasoning behind each tool, plus a daily investment outlook from Money Guy Mutants Research. This site is operated by J Media Group LLC. Content is original, written for an English-speaking U.S. audience, and updated regularly. Calculators are free to use without an account; saving scenarios requires sign-in. Disclosure: Money Guy Mutants provides educational tools only. Nothing on this site is financial, legal, or tax advice. ## Calculators > Free, interactive personal finance calculators. Each tool runs entirely in the browser; no signup required to use them. - [Compound Interest Calculator](https://moneyguymutants.com/apps/compound-interest): Project investment growth over time with custom contributions, compounding frequency, and inflation adjustments. - [Budget Planner](https://moneyguymutants.com/apps/budget): Allocate a household budget across categories with tension-and-flexibility analysis and AI-assisted optimization. - [Retirement Strategy](https://moneyguymutants.com/apps/retirement-strategy): Plan retirement withdrawals with RMDs, Roth conversions, sequence-of-returns risk, and tax-aware drawdown. - [Index Fund Visualizer](https://moneyguymutants.com/apps/index-fund-visualizer): Compare long-term outcomes across index fund allocations and contribution schedules. - [Net Worth Tracker](https://moneyguymutants.com/apps/net-worth): Track assets, liabilities, liquidity, and momentum to visualize your overall financial trajectory. - [Debt Paydown](https://moneyguymutants.com/apps/debt-paydown): Compare avalanche, snowball, and hybrid debt-elimination strategies with payoff timelines and opportunity cost. - [Car Affordability](https://moneyguymutants.com/apps/car-affordability): Apply the 20/3/8 rule with depreciation and opportunity cost to see what car you can actually afford. - [Rent vs. Buy](https://moneyguymutants.com/apps/rent-vs-buy): Compare renting and buying a home with maintenance, taxes, mobility, and opportunity cost factored in. - [Geographic Arbitrage](https://moneyguymutants.com/apps/geographic-arbitrage): Compare income, taxes, and cost of living across all 50 U.S. states to model relocation outcomes. - [Coast FIRE](https://moneyguymutants.com/apps/coast-fire): Find the savings target after which compound growth alone funds retirement — no further contributions required. - [S-Corp Tax Optimizer](https://moneyguymutants.com/apps/s-corp-optimizer): Find the salary/distribution split that maximizes self-employment tax savings for an S-Corp owner. - [S-Corp Retirement Contributions](https://moneyguymutants.com/apps/s-corp-investment): Maximize Solo 401(k) deferrals, profit sharing, and employer matching for S-Corp owners. ## Market Outlook > Money Guy Mutants Research publishes a daily investment outlook every weekday morning (plus a weekly recap) covering markets, the Fed, earnings, and specific tickers and sectors. Newest first. - [Tanker strikes reignite the Iran war as Wall Street sits out Labor Day](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-09-07-hormuz-tanker-strikes-reignite-iran-war): 2026-09-07 — US forces struck three Iranian oil tankers over the weekend and Iran retaliated against tankers and US-linked vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, pushing Brent back near $97 while US markets are closed - [August payrolls arrive with a Fed hike already on the table](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-09-04-august-payrolls-fed-hike-on-the-table): 2026-09-04 — Today's jobs report is the last major data point before the Fed's September 16 decision, landing right as war-driven oil near $92 complicates the inflation picture Thursday's rally papered over. Bread - [Iran widens the war into Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain overnight](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-09-03-iran-strikes-jordan-kuwait-bahrain-war-widens): 2026-09-03 — Iran launched missile and drone strikes on US-linked targets in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain overnight in retaliation for Tuesday's US attacks — the conflict's most significant widening yet. That oversh - [Hormuz strikes send oil and yields higher as Fed hike odds surge](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-09-02-hormuz-strikes-oil-spike-fed-hike-odds): 2026-09-02 — US strikes on Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz pushed oil above $90 and the 10-year yield to its highest since January 2025, while September Fed hike odds have roughly doubled since Jackson H - [Iran strikes spread to Jordan and UAE as oil pushes past $91](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-09-01-iran-strikes-jordan-uae-oil-extends-climb): 2026-09-01 — Iran retaliated against U.S. and allied targets in Jordan and the UAE and CENTCOM disputed Tehran's tanker-mine claims, extending the Hormuz standoff into a second day and pushing Brent above $91 — ev - [Hormuz strike reopens the oil risk premium as the Fed turns coin-flip](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-08-31-hormuz-strike-oil-defense-fed-coin-flip): 2026-08-31 — A weekend US strike on Iranian rocket launchers near the Strait of Hormuz sent Brent above $90 and defense stocks up 5-10% premarket, landing on a market still repricing Fed policy after Friday's hawk - [Warsh's Jackson Hole debut tests a rally that's already narrowing](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-08-28-warsh-jackson-hole-debut-ai-trade-narrows): 2026-08-28 — Fed Chair Kevin Warsh delivers his first Jackson Hole keynote at 10am ET with 30-year yields near 2007 highs, a day after a Nvidia-and-software-fueled rally masked a market where the average stock fel - [Nvidia's blowout quarter reignites the AI trade into Jackson Hole](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-08-27-nvidia-blowout-quarter-ai-trade-jackson-hole): 2026-08-27 — Nvidia's fiscal Q2 revenue jumped 106% and guidance topped estimates, sending shares up almost 5% after hours even as Wednesday's session closed lower on sticky PCE inflation. Marvell earnings, a wall - [Nvidia's earnings test arrives after retail's ugliest day](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-08-26-nvidia-earnings-test-after-retail-carnage): 2026-08-26 — Nasdaq closed higher Tuesday even as Dick's Sporting Goods posted its worst session ever (down roughly 31%) on Foot Locker weakness and Canada finalized 50% retaliatory tariffs. All of that gets swept - [Iran sanctions and Canada tariffs escalate into Nvidia's big week](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-08-25-iran-sanctions-canada-tariffs-nvidia-week): 2026-08-25 — Stocks closed mixed Monday as a defensive rotation into staples offset another memory-chip slide, even as Washington opened new sanctions fronts against Iran and 50% tariffs against Canada. Wednesday' - [Alibaba's dilution and Samsung's buyback miss spook Asia tech](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-08-24-alibaba-dilution-samsung-disappointment-asia-selloff): 2026-08-24 — Alibaba fell as much as 10% in Hong Kong after a $10.2 billion AI-funding share sale, and Samsung dropped 8.35% on a shareholder-return plan investors judged too small, dragging the Kospi down 3% and - [Walmart falls on a beat, and Wednesday's bond relief evaporates](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-08-21-walmart-selloff-yields-erase-relief-rally): 2026-08-21 — Walmart dropped roughly 9% Thursday despite beating estimates and raising guidance, as investors focused on the weakest US comparable-sales growth in six years, while Treasury yields snapped back and - [Yields ease, retail keeps beating — Walmart's turn to prove it](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-08-20-walmart-earnings-test-yields-ease): 2026-08-20 — Treasury's doubled long-bond buybacks pulled 10- and 30-year yields off multi-year highs and snapped Wall Street's three-day slide, while Moderna closed up roughly 177% on a landmark melanoma-vaccine - [Global chip rout triggers Korea circuit breaker as Fed minutes loom](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-08-19-global-chip-rout-fed-minutes-retail-earnings): 2026-08-19 — A global AI-chip selloff triggered a trading halt in South Korea overnight, with Samsung and SK Hynix down 7-10%, as the 30-year Treasury yield holds near a 19-year high and traders await July's FOMC - [Oman bombing threat and 19-year-high yields overshadow Home Depot's test](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-08-18-oman-threat-30-year-yield-spike): 2026-08-18 — Trump threatened to bomb Oman if it 'gets in the way' of reopening the Strait of Hormuz right as the 60-day Iran deadline lapsed, and a long-bond selloff pushed the 30-year yield to its highest since - [Trump's Hormuz territory claim collides with a make-or-break retail week](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-08-17-trump-hormuz-territory-claim-retail-earnings-week): 2026-08-17 — Trump's weekend vow to declare the Strait of Hormuz U.S. territory drew a flat Iranian rejection and kept Brent up more than 5% on the week, but futures point higher Monday as traders bet Fed-easing h - [Record S&P close as soft PPI slashes rate-hike odds to a third](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-08-14-soft-ppi-fed-hike-odds-collapse): 2026-08-14 — Flat July PPI knocked September rate-hike odds to roughly a third and sent the S&P 500 to a fresh record close, but a hidden core-services pickup, Applied Materials' revenue miss, and Silver Lake's re - [Fed hike odds tumble on in-line CPI as Cisco's beat-and-sink sets up AMAT](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-08-13-fed-hike-odds-tumble-cisco-selloff-tests-amat): 2026-08-13 — September rate-hike odds fell to roughly a third after July CPI matched forecasts, but Cisco's post-earnings slide despite record results and raised AI guidance is a warning sign heading into Applied - [July CPI lands today as oil's Hormuz rally hits a sixth day](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-08-12-cpi-day-oil-climbs-ai-earnings-beat): 2026-08-12 — Wednesday's CPI print is the swing factor for a Fed whose hike odds have climbed sharply over the past two weeks, arriving just as oil extends a sixth straight advance on the stalled Hormuz standoff — - [Oil spikes on Hormuz breakdown as CPI and AI-earnings test loom](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-08-11-hormuz-oil-spike-cpi-ai-earnings-test): 2026-08-11 — Trump's new reparations demand killed near-term hopes of reopening the Strait of Hormuz, sending oil back toward $82 WTI / $88 Brent and helping knock stocks off Friday's record close — with CoreWeave - [Jobs miss lifts stocks to records, but Wednesday's CPI is the real test](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-08-10-jobs-miss-record-highs-cpi-test-looms): 2026-08-10 — A shock 23,000-job drop in July payrolls sent the S&P 500 to a fresh record and cut September rate-hike odds to roughly 42% — but Atlassian and Twilio's 24-37% earnings pops show how violently single - [Iran's Hormuz walk-back cracks the rally hours before jobs day](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-08-07-hormuz-walk-back-oil-jumps-jobs-day): 2026-08-07 — Iran said its Oman shipping deal won't fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz, reversing the trade that drove this week's record rally and pushing oil and yields back up — hours before the July jobs report - [SpaceX picks Nvidia over AMD as record share unlock tests the stock](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-08-06-spacex-nvidia-amd-record-unlock): 2026-08-06 — SpaceX named Nvidia its exclusive AI chip supplier for its new Starmind orbital-compute project and dropped AMD, hours before roughly $116 billion in insider shares become eligible for trading today — - [Palantir surges to records as Hormuz deal nears, FOMC minutes loom](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-08-05-palantir-blowout-hormuz-deal-fomc-minutes): 2026-08-05 — Palantir's ~27% post-earnings pop helped push the S&P 500 and Dow to fresh records Tuesday, but AMD and SpaceX's opposite reactions to strong prints — plus today's FOMC minutes and a possible Strait o - [Record closes meet an oil crash as AMD, SpaceX earnings loom](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-08-04-record-close-oil-crash-amd-spacex-earnings): 2026-08-04 — Monday's megacap tech rally pushed the Dow and S&P 500 to record closes and put Amazon's market cap above $3 trillion, but oil's confirmed ~5-6% plunge and Tuesday's earnings gauntlet — AMD and SpaceX - [Iran de-escalation craters oil, but the bond market isn't celebrating](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-08-03-iran-oil-crash-fed-hawkish-pivot): 2026-08-03 — Trump's weekend call-off of Iran strikes sent oil down as much as 7% and lit up travel stocks in premarket trading, but a 30-year Treasury yield above 5.2% — the highest since the financial crisis — a - [Microsoft's record rally erases this week's Fed-driven selloff](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-07-31-microsoft-record-rally-erases-fed-selloff): 2026-07-31 — Microsoft's $450 billion single-day gain — the biggest in stock market history — and an AWS reacceleration at Amazon powered Thursday's rebound and sent Asian chip stocks soaring overnight, even as Ap - [Bond market revolts against a hawkish Fed as Big Tech earnings split in two](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-07-30-bond-market-revolts-fed-hawkish-hold): 2026-07-30 — The 30-year Treasury yield hit its highest level since 2007 after the Fed's divided hold, and Wednesday's selloff is still bleeding into Thursday even as Microsoft's blowout quarter and Meta's earning - [Intercepted Iran missile attack collides with Fed day and Big Tech earnings](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-07-29-iran-attack-fed-day-big-tech-earnings-collide): 2026-07-29 — Iran fired ballistic missiles at US forces in the Middle East early Wednesday — all intercepted — sending oil up nearly 4% just hours before the Fed's rate decision and earnings from Microsoft and Met - [AI capex anxiety flares again right before the Fed and Big Tech earnings](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/2026-07-28-ai-capex-anxiety-flares-into-fed-week): 2026-07-28 — A WSJ report that Nvidia is discussing guaranteeing up to $250 billion in financing for an OpenAI data center sent Nvidia down nearly 5% Monday and hammered Asian chip stocks, landing right as the Fed - [Full outlook archive](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking) - [Outlook RSS feed](https://moneyguymutants.com/thinking/rss.xml) ## Topics - [Personal Finance](https://moneyguymutants.com/articles?category=personal-finance): 2 articles - 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