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The explosion of financial updates out of Washington in the past week has been overwhelming, the “breaking news” equivalent of projectile vomit. (The zone was flooded, as it were.) It’s reminded me a little of the flashes of bottomless panic I felt in March 2020 when it was clear there was a fundamentally unknown quantity […]
In 2021, I earned more in a month than I had earned in all of 2018. I was 26. Given all the buzz about oligarchy this year, I’ve been reflecting on the psychological experience of sudden material abundance: Becoming wealthier made me realize how much easier life is when your access to money is practically […]
Originally, this essay was supposed to be about the futility of extreme New Year’s resolutions. There were going to be jokes about announcing your intent to leave Instagram on Instagram; reflections on the cultural amnesia of skidding into yet another January 1 with a vague commitment to “meditate daily,” only to duly abandon it by […]
The “Passion Planner” was first sucked into the gravitational force field of my striving at an internship in 2016, thanks to a young colleague who reeked of competence. She represented the sort of high-achieving twenty-something I was desperate to become, and she was always toting around her leatherbound daybook. In morning meetings, I’d ogle as […]
A few months ago, a 93-year-old billionaire donated $1 billion of her wealth to a medical school to make it free for its students…forever. It might seem counterintuitive that a billionaire making medical school free in perpetuity could inspire conversation about wealth limits, but in her piece for The Atlantic, columnist Christine Emba notes that […]
I just turned in the manuscript for my first book. And while no part of writing 100,000 words is easy and breezy, there was one persistently itchy thread that wove itself into the pages of my growing Google Doc, relentlessly stalking me through the paragraphs like the deranged ghost of Clippy. Call it “the Lean […]
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 […]
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 […]
This week’s episode of The Money with Katie Show covers the expensive gauntlet of financial and physical labor required to transition loved ones into the “final phase” of their lives: potentially decades of retirement and eventually, end-of-life care. This transition from providing care to potentially needing it marks a sort of full-circle moment in the […]
A two-year collective existential crisis birthed an interesting phenomenon in 2022: quiet quitting. While the term primarily began proliferating around the recesses of TikTok, it didn’t take long for quiet quitting to catch fire in the mainstream media. Publications breathlessly debated the topic and took pretty predictable stances: Gallup asked if it was real, the […]
As we near the end of March, I know what you’re thinking: Q1 is almost over! (No? Just me?) This year I decided to try something a little different when thinking about my 2023 ambitions. And while I’ve usually long defected from my best Jan. 1 intentions by the time we’re pulling up on the […]
As I’ve shared before on The Money with Katie Show and likewise on this very blog, I’ve had a fairly fraught relationship with materialism. I’ve gone through phases when I would’ve branded myself with the Chanel logo if given the materials and opportunity to do so, and I’ve also gone through stages when I embraced […]
Imagine a group of kids: some short, some tall, some gangly, some sturdy, each with a varying level of athletic ability. Some are coordinated and quick on their feet, while others resemble me as a child (read: running on wobbly knees and timid in the face of physical threat, destined instead for drama club). There […]
My junior year of high school, my formerly sporadic, mild acne that had been contained through measures like consistent courses of antibiotics and hormonal contraceptives bloomed into a case so severe that my dermatologist took one look at the constellation of painful, purple lumps dotting my jawline and declared it was finally time for Accutane. […]
“Millennials are entitled to a good life!” claims the entitled millennial, immediately drawing criticism from older readers who fire off short, snarky messages from their Galaxy Tabs. (Shout-out to Jim, an angry man with a Galaxy Tab who told me I’m a “woman who overcomplicates everything” and “a young person who has no common sense.” […]