Because sometimes things just need to be said….
August’s jobs report came in Friday morning, and it was a good one: 162,000 jobs added, more than double what economists were expecting, unemployment holding steady at 4.1 percent. That’s normally a number worth celebrating. Instead, a few hours later, the president threatened to stop trading with most of the world. At 9:56am, he posted …
Your electric bill went up again this year. Mine did too — about $110 more than last year, which happens to land right around the national average increase. Meanwhile, the companies sending you that bill just wrapped up their best five years ever. From 2021 to 2025, investor-owned electric utilities pocketed $244 billion in profit …
The US Open kicked off this week, and buried in the schedule is a number that stopped me mid-scroll: the singles champion walks away with $5.5 million. Not for a season. Not for a career. For two weeks of tennis. The total prize pool this year is $108 million, up 20% from last year and …
Somewhere between the three-ring binders and the “suggested donation” for classroom supplies, back-to-school shopping quietly turned into one of the more stressful line items on the family calendar, and this year it’s worse than usual. New numbers out this month show families planning to spend less on the actual shopping trip than they did last …