If You’re Planning on Eating at the Cheesecake Factory, Do the Math on the Suggested Tip
Allegedly, the restaurant has been printing receipts encouraging split-check customers to leave tip percentages based on the entire group’s bill.
How Characters in The Decemberists’ Album ‘Picaresque’ Do Money
Because you asked. Here we go.
What’s Your Financial Goal for This Week?
It’s Monday, which means it’s time to set a financial goal for the week.
The Moment When You Realize You Don’t Know What the Organizations You’ve Been Funding Actually Do
I understand, on an intellectual level, the importance of ensuring free speech for all. But, on an emotional level, I am not ready to get behind this particular free speech activity.
What Do Index Funds Have to Do With the Cost of Air Travel?
Is your favorite low-cost index fund making airfare more expensive?
Local Blogger Is Human
I know I brag about planning my meals so I don’t need to eat takeout the night before a trip, but…
The Time Lyft Charged Its Employees to Park in a Free Lot
Instead of charging by the hour or by the day, Lyft charged employees $200 per spot per month.
On the Beach: A Billfold Book Review
Capitalism, cockroaches, and love are the only things that survive nuclear war.
Two More Longreads About What It Takes to Get a Good Job These Days
Why even go to the job fair? Why waste time and money printing paper resumes that these employers don’t want?
Do 1 Thing That Really Should Be Available Through an Online Form
It’s Thursday, which means it’s time to Do 1 Thing.
Guess Who Has All the Money? (You Already Know the Answer.)
The rich have been getting richer and the poor have been getting poorer, and now we have a hockey-stick-shaped chart to prove it.
We Bought a Street
The reason Lam and Cheng were able to purchase the privately owned street is because the homeowners’ association failed to pay its street taxes for… wait, three decades?
Question Wednesday
It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time to get ahead of our financial questions.
Kris Jenner on Money, Relationships, and Setting Goals
Janet Mock interviews Jenner about her early life, her relationship with (and divorce from) Robert Kardashian, and her marriage to Caitlyn Jenner—who wasn’t doing very well financially when the two met.
Everything You Wanted to Know About MLMs
Today’s must-read longread comes from Quartz: “Multilevel-marketing companies like LuLaRoe are forcing people into debt and psychological crisis.”