Because sometimes things just need to be said….
Seventy-six percent of Americans say members of Congress shouldn’t be allowed to buy and sell individual stocks. Six percent say they should. That’s from an Economist/YouGov poll in May, and I would genuinely like to meet the six percent. This week Reuters reported that Democrats, who are on track for at least 255 House seats …
Four senators, two Republicans and two Democrats, wrote a bill together, and on Monday the Senate voted 73-25 to move it forward. Mark the date, because it doesn’t happen often. The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act comes from Shelley Moore Capito, Mike Lee, Martin Heinrich and Sheldon Whitehouse, and it goes after permitting, the …
Walmart’s “early Black Friday” sale started today. Black Friday is November 27. You can do that math without a calculator, and so can Walmart. The retailer is running three events this year, per Retail Dive: early deals November 12 through 15, the main Black Friday sale November 23 through 29, then Cyber Monday from November …
Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party tickets run $189 to $229 a head this year, depending on the night, and that’s before tax. Kids 3 to 9 get a $10 break. Disney World sells 25 of these nights between November 8 and December 22, and as of this week one recap says every November night is …
Tomorrow is Veterans Day, and anyone with a military ID and a free morning can eat for free from breakfast straight through dinner. Denny’s is giving away an Original Grand Slam until noon. Golden Corral runs a free “Thank You” dinner starting at 4 p.m. Outback is handing out a free Bloomin’ Onion today and …
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. …