Because sometimes things just need to be said….
On Wednesday morning the government will announce what it thinks your groceries cost, and then decide how big a raise retirees get for it. Estimates for the 2027 Social Security cost-of-living adjustment are sitting around 3.5 percent, up from 2.8 percent this year. The official number lands October 14 alongside the September inflation report, and …
If you can sign up for something with one tap, you should be able to quit it with one tap. New York City just made that the law, and it took a city to do what Washington couldn’t. As of October 1, businesses in the city that sell subscriptions and auto-renewals have to let you …
Baseball wants to give back eight games a year and I’d take that deal before they finish the sentence. The playoff part of the pitch, though, is where they lose me. Here’s what MLB put in front of the players union today: a 154-game regular season starting in 2029, a best-of-seven Division Series, and a …
The light turned green, the guy in front of me kept staring at his lap, and I got to sit through the whole thing again. Twice. That’s not traffic, that’s a hostage situation. Here’s what I think is happening. A red light has become a free pause button for some drivers. Phone comes out, eyes …
Gas stations used to compete by guessing what the guy across the street would charge. Now, according to a lawsuit filed in California, they let a computer do the guessing for all of them at once. Three California drivers sued in late June, claiming BP, Circle K, Marathon, Walmart and Albertsons, which together run more …
Trump says Republicans will send every American adult $5,000 if they win the House and Senate in November. I did the math so he didn’t have to. The U.S. has roughly 270 million adults. Multiply that by $5,000 and you get about $1.35 trillion. The plan is supposedly paid for with tariffs, which is where …
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 …
It took a farmer with a camera, not a regulator, to catch a $17 billion Microsoft deal running dozens of gas generators without an air permit. Here’s the story. A company called DataOne is building a giant AI data center in Vineland, New Jersey, for the Dutch firm Nebius, which supplies computing power to Microsoft …
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates on September 16. Sixteen days later, the government told us employers added 29,000 jobs last month, when economists were expecting something closer to 85,000 or 90,000. That’s the timeline. Make of it what you will, but I’d make of it this: somebody pulled the brakes right before the car …
Until today, a used car buyer in California had no legal right to change his mind once the paperwork was signed. You could return a toaster, but a $30,000 car was yours the second you initialed the last page. That changed this morning. California’s CARS Act, SB 766, took effect October 1, and it gives …
A senior Ticketmaster executive wrote that the company would turn a “blind eye” to ticket brokers breaking its rules “as a matter of policy.” That email is now Exhibit A in a federal case, and on Monday a judge said the case can go ahead. Here’s the setup. The FTC and seven states sued Ticketmaster …
The government’s funding deadline is Wednesday, and nobody in Washington is sweating it. That’s the news. Congress got it done a month early. The Senate passed a stopgap bill 90-6, the House followed 370-48 on September 1, and Trump signed it September 2. Federal funding now runs through December 11, which happens to land well …