Actual good news, and writing the bad news down, as Eric did, can lead to kind people doing lovely things.

The Trump administration seems to have forced Coke to become Mexican Coke. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...

BREAKING: Nutella cereal coming soon from Kellogg's. www.wsj.com/business/dea...

We hunted down everything from the tax bill that just passed that might hit you in the wallet. It's... a lot. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Great op-ed. This is why I've quit pro sports fandom. There are great ideas in here for laws; here's another that might be bad: I should be able to shove a $10 or $20 bill into my TV/phone/laptop and watch any, single game I want -- or subscribe to any NBA finals/World Cup for a reasonable price.

Anyone who uses State Farm for anything should really read this story. And if you switch insurers, tell them California sent you to do it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/r...

I'm playin' my guitar and building castles in the sun... and singing Fun Fun Fun.

The WSJ has the receipts showing that Meta doesn't care much about consumer fraud. One ironic twist - as a Meta advertiser myself for my merit aid course, there are all sorts of scammers trying to convince me that *my ads* are bad and I'm about to have my account shut. www.wsj.com/tech/meta-fr...

Am I the only one wondering if a group will run Bay to Breakers this year dressed as Elon and 14 babies? www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

Amazing. Miraculous, really. And this is the most interesting phrase in the story: "which built on decades of federally funded research..." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

This is about the most Chicago obit I can imagine. What a delight. chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2...

Google calendar works fine in our family, but I guarantee you that if you're partnered with offspring you'll recognize something in this delightful story, which is really more about relationships than it is about calendars. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/s...

Back on the @marketplace.org radio waves talking about who pays what and why for college. This morning, I got word that someone used my advice to get another $40,000 out of Syracuse AFTER the teenager had committed on May 1. That family gets an A-plus. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

I cannot emphasize enough how many decisions on college campuses are made by a handful of external consultants.

Brave, and useful, by @katieroiphe.bsky.social. It's never too late to start talking to kids about money. www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

NEW: The little-known consulting firms that tell colleges what kind of aid and discounts to offer to each individual student. Whenever I explain this to people out loud, their jaws hit the floor. I finally wrote it down. Happy May 1 decision day to all who celebrate! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/b...

"This letter marks the first time since October 7 that Jews at Columbia with varying perspectives have come together to publicly affirm that Jewish safety is never dependent on the targeting of other minorities and the stifling of dialogue." www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

Genuine good news for your Thursday. What a delight. And management is leaving the dancers alone. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/a...

Some people fear the Trump administration so much that they are trying to take their bylines off old campus newspaper stories and have their quotes scrubbed from articles. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Didn't take them long. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...

Read til the end. The comments are heartbreaking... and then someone shows up to utter such a sick burn that it will make you smile and forward the story to a family that has a member who is autistic. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/w...

Get your macrosfad diet alerts right here on page one of the WSJ. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/pr...

>>one young person told me: “I want people to know about what they did to Americorps. For many of us, this was our way to pay for college, to get away from home, to figure out what to do with our lives, it was a big step. And they just ripped it out from under us without even a 2-week’s notice.”<<

"It’s been a rough year for yachts." www.wsj.com/style/yachts...

Damn Who knows if any of this will stick. But if it does, how many millions of people are going to get waaaay more aggressive with what they deduct and fail to report? It will be a totally wild -- and dangerous -- experiment in real time. Maybe AI can do all the work. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

A reporter from The AP was allowed into this afternoon's East Room ceremony — the first time the news outlet has been allowed into one of these events since the Trump White House put its ban into place in February.

Some institutions of higher learning are incredibly cunning marketers.

Big, long stock market losses, when they happen (and they eventually do, or always have at least), teach very valuable (albeit expensive) lessons.

“This is the problem of this kind of autocratic regime — the people who stay there are kind of hostages.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

Without insurance, there is no capitalism. And without a halt to climate change, there is no insurance. "This is not about saving the planet. This is about saving the conditions under which markets, finance, and civilization itself can continue to operate." www.linkedin.com/pulse/climat...

"Repurposing Social Security’s death master file, which is used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of immigrants who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

This list of 314 things will blow your mind. Could the government gathering them all in one place help sniff out fraud more easily? Maybe. But what else could -- or would -- the government do with it? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

Regular reminder that this is the wrong place for short-term stock-trading tips.

If you wait until May 1 to commit to a college that has admitted you, they may just dump $28,000 of additional merit aid discounts into your lap, without you even asking. Hi Oberlin! www.instagram.com/p/DIM0WW0P_BP/

How "One Shining Moment" became the national anthem of NCAA basketball, by me, from 22 (!) years ago, reporting from the studio where the song was recorded. www.wsj.com/articles/SB1...

OK, 9:30, markets are open, here we go. Send this to a younger friend (or read it yourself since a lot of it applies to you too), it's still almost entirely true. www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/y...

"The stock market is unique. It cannot be indicted, arrested or deported; it cannot be intimidated, threatened or bullied; it has no gender, ethnicity or religion; it cannot be fired, furloughed or defunded; it cannot be primaried before the next midterms..." 1/2 www.jpmorgan.com/insights/out...

Tariffs = Taxes, and Trump has just raised taxes by a lot. I get that many of you dislike our often-measured approach, but I think we were appropriately plain-spoken here, leading the home page right now.

If you've got kids approaching college, you're probably worried about any savings you have and how to allocate it. I wrote this in 2009, and it holds up pretty well. www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/y...

Slate is offering free access to @slate.com Plus for federal workers who have been laid off. Slate has work advice columns (including from me), financial advice columns, and great news and legal coverage of this sociopathic administration. slate.com/fed-plus <7/n>

I am very concerned about the state of our country and the economy. We've been saving and investing aggressively for years, targeting an early (by U.S. standards) retirement. AND I'm going to keep doing exactly the same thing. Time in the market beats timing the market.

What's interesting about today's market plunge, historically, is that the tariffs move was entirely **optional** and the Trump team had reasonable certainty about how the markets would react. They did it anyway. That sort of thing doesn't happen often. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/b...

As my mom would say, "this Braun guy is a real piece of work."

CBS has a price tracker for everyday goods. Charts are a bit noisy, but it's a real useful exercise. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-t...

Chipotle bought about 5% of avocados consumed in the USA last year, but where are they gonna get em now? Turns out they've spent years figuring it out. The WSJ continues to do great work on the guac beat. www.wsj.com/business/hos...

I'm choosing not to believe this & wish the story had done more than say "federal officials say travelers need to take the May 7 date seriously." Which officials? I still don't think it will happen. We'll get another extension - or TSA chaos & senators missing flights. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

Trump team saying, in essence, that paying more should be a matter of national pride. We'll see how that goes, especially if stocks keep falling and stay lower for as long as it takes for any new factories to materialize. The Carter comparison here is fascinating. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...

This is absolutely glorious - the words, the photos, that scallion business (brilliant!). “It started primarily because I wanted to eat a lot of cake,” Ms. Sunga said. “I love cake.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...

So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9

Eli Saslow gets to the heart of the matter like few other journalists. This story of a fired veteran working and then unworking for the VA is worth reading til the very end. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...