Economy

I spent a few days last week in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to deliver a keynote called “Your Money, Our System: Collective Tools to Move the Needle” at an annual women’s conference. When I agreed to the presentation, I hadn’t realized that Teton County held the title of ‘greatest income disparity in the United States,’ a […]

As the S&P 500 continues to creep perilously higher with each passing week of 2025, I’ve been reading a lot about AI and thinking equally as much about the late Joan Didion, one of the most famous women in the grand tradition of putting words on paper. This may seem a strange, spontaneous association, but […]

I spent the weekend in a cabin just south of Breckenridge that appeared to be constructed with Lincoln Logs. It was a gumdrop surrounded by towering fir trees, the lighting soft and warm. Aspens tore peels of shimmering gold into the mountainside. Exploring the cabin’s cozy insides, I felt like one of the claymation figures […]

In June, Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies released a report that confirmed the obvious but unbearable reality that most aspiring homeowners recognized long ago: The median income cannot afford the median life. To meet traditional lending criteria for the middle-of-the-road home today, a prospective buyer would need to reliably pull down at least […]