Spending & Saving

In 2020—on this very website!—I extolled the virtues of forgoing the (then-average) American rite of passage of a $550 car payment for the first decade or so of your investing life: “In 15 years, you pull a big ol’ f*** it, and you buy a Porsche Cayenne. Great. You deserve it! In the meantime, though, […]

If you’re a millennial on the fence about becoming a parent, you’ve probably heard the phrase, “It costs $1 million to raise a child through college.” (*insert white guy blinking meme*, gee, no wonder the American birth rate just keeps getting lower.) While that’s not necessarily true, the average middle-income family with two children will […]

At the end of 2022, Money with Katie officially became a million-dollar business: Our revenue hit $1.1m by December 31. (We really just squeaked over the finish line, but a win is a win.) While I shared some of the downsides of monetizing your personhood in this earlier episode, following your own curiosity and interests […]

Last year, writer and activist Gabe Dunn came on The Money with Katie Show and said something insightful: “I can see some of [these personal finance experts] who, even if they started out as a ‘waitress’ or ‘a child of immigrants’…I know how quickly you can lose perspective. And it’s very quickly.” Their point was […]