Because sometimes things just need to be said….
The Thanksgiving price panic is here, and the number at the center of it is two dollars. PwC says the average American family will spend about $90 on the big dinner this year, up from $88 last year. That’s it. A latte and a half. If a $2 bump on the biggest meal of the …
Every October, the same headline shows up: your Social Security raise is coming, and Medicare is going to eat it. This year the raise is 3.6%, announced October 14, and the headline is already back. I ran the numbers, because that’s apparently my hobby now. The average retired worker gets about $75 more a month, …
Voters picked a Democratic Congress and kept a Republican president, which is about the closest thing to a spending freeze this country ever gets by accident. The Associated Press and ABC News projected this week that Democrats won both the House and the Senate. Trump’s answer was to remind everybody he still has a veto. …
The federal government sent out roughly $186 billion last year that it should not have. That’s not my number or a think tank’s number. It’s from the Government Accountability Office, which is the government auditing itself and not enjoying the results. Do the math with me. $186 billion over 365 days is about $510 million …
Disney’s most expensive way to skip a line is about to cost $499 for one person on one day. That’s the reported new peak price for the Lightning Lane Premier Pass at Magic Kingdom, up $50 from today’s $449 peak, plus tax. The cheaper stuff is going up too. Starting with reservation dates on November …
You got an extra hour of sleep Sunday, and Congress got an extra hour to ignore the one bill 308 House members already agreed on. Clocks fell back at 2 a.m. on November 1, same as they have every first Sunday of November since 2007. Meanwhile the Sunshine Protection Act, which would stop all of …
Washington State just did something rare in the car business: it let a customer buy a car from the company that made it. Well, from two companies. Rivian and Lucid, to be exact, and only if they clear a list of conditions that reads like a bouncer’s dress code. Lawmakers passed SB 6354 in March. …
Over 30 million Americans had already voted by October 26, according to the University of Florida Election Lab, and every cable panel in the country is now squinting at that number like it’s a tea leaf. It isn’t one. Here’s what the early numbers actually say. An AP comparison reported by the National Desk found …
Tonight, millions of Americans will hand a stranger’s kid a piece of chocolate that costs more than it did last year, and then complain about it in the group chat. The National Retail Federation expects Halloween spending to hit $13.5 billion this year, up from $13.1 billion in 2025. That works out to about $115 …
Your electric bill has a lot in common with a bad relationship: it keeps going up, nobody explains why, and the other party seems to be doing great. Here’s the scorecard. Electricity prices rose about 40% between 2021 and 2025, according to the nonprofit PowerLines. Utilities asked regulators for a record $31 billion in rate …
There are thousands of Disney World tips out there, and I’ve read an unhealthy number of them. Only one has never let me down: get to the park early. Not 15 minutes early. At least 45 minutes before opening, and up to 90 on a packed day. Here’s why. Parking, the monorail or bus, and …
At a rally in Bullhead City, Arizona, on October 14, the President of the United States told a crowd that a swimmer “suffered massive windburn” because a giant in the next lane “swam by her so fast that the wind was unbelievable.” Nobody in the story was named, and he never said where or when …