Because sometimes things just need to be said….
I dumped Marriott for Hyatt as my main hotel loyalty program, and the funniest part is that Marriott is the reason I know I was right. Here’s how that works. I still carry the Chase Marriott Bonvoy card, which hands me one free night certificate every year for a $95 annual fee. A free night …
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates today for the first time in three years. The vote was unanimous. The man running that vote is Kevin Warsh — the same guy Trump nominated because he wanted someone who’d cut rates, not raise them. Back in February, at a Semafor economic summit, Trump said he wouldn’t have …
Southwest Airlines spent decades selling you exactly one thing no other airline would: free bags. It showed up in every commercial and every earnings call, unchanged for years. Then in May 2025, Southwest killed it. The reaction was instant and confident. Fitch Ratings warned that adding bag fees risked “eroding Southwest’s competitive strengths relative to …
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 …
Warren Buffett’s secretary has paid a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett for years now, and somehow that’s still true in 2026. It’s not because the tax code has a soft spot for old men who like Cherry Coke — it’s because the way the ultra-rich actually get paid barely resembles a paycheck, and the …
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 …
Book a flight from an iPhone, in a hotel lobby, at midnight, after refreshing the same search four times because the price keeps changing, and Delta might quietly decide you look desperate enough to pay more. Sounds like a conspiracy theory. It isn’t anymore. It’s the subject of a congressional inquiry with an actual deadline. …
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 …