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Money with Katie started as...

…a humble blog in April 2020 as the quintessential childless millennial pandemic project, a place where I set out to teach other young women about the magic of compounding returns. Baptized in the FI/RE movement in 2018, I saw personal finance as the way, truth, and light: a path away from dependence on any job, person, or situation that makes us feel trapped. 

After a whirlwind acquisition in early 2022, I figured my new career path was laid out for me: Go the way of Suze Ormans and Dave Ramseys past and teach individual people how to manage their money, forever. Simple enough.

But after a few years, I noticed a problem with the “earn more, spend less, invest the difference” dogma I had once so faithfully embraced, and eventually, I couldn’t ignore it anymore: For the majority of Americans, personal finance is a necessary but insufficient answer for broader systemic challenges.

I wanted to make sense of a world I once believed I understood perfectly: to explore alternate economic systems, study how other countries have solved these problems already, and understand why so many people feel so strongly that our current iteration of American capitalism is unavoidable. 

The answer became obvious. They often couldn’t imagine anything different. To move forward, we had to start thinking much, much bigger about money. Consider Money with Katie my fieldnotes from this journey: a place to get both a robust roadmap to financial independence and thoughtful conversations about how we can create a world where things like “financial literacy” aren’t life-or-death necessities.

…a humble blog in April 2020 as the quintessential childless millennial pandemic project, a place where I set out to teach other young women about the magic of compounding returns. Baptized in the FI/RE movement in 2018, I saw personal finance as the way, truth, and light: a path away from dependence on any job, person, or situation that makes us feel trapped. 

After a whirlwind acquisition in early 2022, I figured my new career path was laid out for me: Go the way of Suze Ormans and Dave Ramseys past and teach individual people how to manage their money, forever. Simple enough.

But after a few years, I noticed a problem with the “earn more, spend less, invest the difference” dogma I had once so faithfully embraced, and eventually, I couldn’t ignore it anymore: For the majority of Americans, personal finance is a necessary but insufficient answer for broader systemic challenges.

I wanted to make sense of a world I once believed I understood perfectly: to explore alternate economic systems, study how other countries have solved these problems already, and understand why so many people feel so strongly that our current iteration of American capitalism is unavoidable.