While the Dow Jones dances on a razor's edge, the traditional tools to measure panic are broken. Welcome to the era of invisible volatility, where algorithms trade faster than your anxiety.
Betterment promised to democratize wealth with a few lines of code and a friendly interface. But as volatility exposes the cracks in the passive dogma, the pioneer of robo-advising is facing an existential crisis: algorithms can manage money, but they can't manage panic.