Economy

On May 6, 1954, a British man named Roger Bannister did what was formerly considered unthinkable: He ran a mile in under four minutes. Runners had been chasing this elusive goal “seriously” since 1886, and for 68 years, the most talented athletes around the world slowly convinced themselves it wasn’t physically possible. Then Bannister proved […]

We recently conducted a survey with the Money with Katie audience on Instagram, and the results shocked us. We had asked for a handful of economic data points, like age, location, what people spend money on, and how much their household earns. I’m not sure what we were expecting to hear, but it wasn’t this: […]

Last December, I took three of my best friends on a trip to Tulum, Mexico. It was the first time I had ever done something so grand, and a few days ago, I woke up thinking again of Tulum. I navigated to our choice hotel’s site to check booking availability, making a mental note of […]

In January 2021, search volume for the term “should I invest in Bitcoin” hit its highest peak, and remained a popular search term through early summer. Bitcoin—and cryptocurrency more generally—was everywhere you looked, infiltrating even the most staid of personal finance domains online (yours truly’s included, as I wrote my first and only cryptocurrency explainer […]