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The other morning, I woke up with a strange impulse: I wanted to go to the mall. Work had been particularly intense for a couple of weeks, so wandering around a giant commercial space that smells like someone spritzed an Auntie Anne’s pretzel with Chanel No. 5 sounded like irresistible frivolity. This happens every few […]
I typically follow a simple social media strategy: Get incensed or enthused about a topic, then make a quippy, shareable, and, crucially, under-90-second breakdown. The simpler and timelier, the better. So when I shared a meandering, four-minute-long diatribe titled “healthcare hellscape vlog” in which I took the viewer on a spliced-together journey of my (failed) […]
Ever since that cursed Shein brand trip last summer in which American influencers toured the company’s Guangzhou factories and marveled aloud at how “not-sweaty” the workers were, the center of the Venn diagram between sustainability and personal finance came into full focus. For most people, financial health is contingent upon managing consumption habits—producing more income […]
Imagine with me, for a moment, that the year is 1953. The Great Depression and most of the horrors of World War II are behind us, and you’re ready to build wealth. Your home cost $7,000, and you’re diligently paying off your $50/month mortgage and, I don’t know, attending sock hops regularly? The 401(k) won’t […]
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 […]
The first documented mention of the term “starter home” was nearly a century ago in 1926, which described it as “for the man and wife who wants [sic] a home with comfort, but small expense.” What do you think, man or wife? Interested in a little comfort with a small expense? Can I interest you […]
Between 1941 and 1945, roughly 16.5 million Americans served in WWII alongside the Allied powers (for context, the US population in 1941 was only 133 million), which meant one thing back home: all hands on economic deck, including mothers. The original girlboss, Rosie the Riveter, was born—women joined the ranks of laborers building aircraft, ships, […]
Let me ask you a question: Do you consider yourself wealthy? Whether you do or you don’t, what’s your justification for your answer? If I had to guess, it has something to do with comparison to people in a similar situation to you, as opposed to any hard-and-fast numbers: If you look around at your […]