Full-length weekly deep-dives - presented by AI - focusing on business and finance, or the occasional topic we can’t stop thinking about.
Though on first glance it sounds like a great idea, going forward with a gas tax holiday is more complicated than you can ever imagine.
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Summer vacation used to mean packing a few bags, catching a flight, or taking a long lazy road trip. Fast forward to 2026: now it’s more like solving a financial puzzle to get the right combination of foresight, flexibility, and fees.
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Is surveillance pricing really a thing? Experts say yes, but how do you recognize true supply and demand versus a company using your own data against you?
Doggie divorces, pup-pre-nups, splittens. Call it whatever you want, but more and more separations don't involve custody of the kids - the big question is "who gets the pet?".
The Trump administration's tariff house of cards just collapsed because of a Supreme Court ruling. So how are new tariffs already in play... long before everyone has gotten their money back from the old tariffs?
QVC's recent bankruptcy filing is a master lesson in the student becoming the master. If you think about it, weren't those hosts the first true influencers?
Kalshi and Polymarket. They're big names in the prediction markets, and if you don't know what that is, buddy, you might want to sit down for this one.
In America, is the most stressful part of a medical issue the diagnosis, the procedure – or the bill that comes after? How did the cost of getting better become its own kind of sick?
It's getting harder to watch all of your games, matches, or races in one place. And the fragmentation of viewing your favorite sport? It's only going to get worse.
In this age of newer, re-usable space vehicles, why is NASA using legacy technology and heritage hardware to get us back to the Moon?
Cheaper surgery, elite surgeons, recovery in paradise? Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?
The good news: that second mortgage from almost 20 years ago disappeared and was buried in the chaos of the housing crisis. The bad news: although you may have forgotten about that home loan, that home loan didn't forget about you.
This is the playbook for how to select and buy the car you can afford. Too bad reality and today's new car prices have other plans for your money.
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