Website Guides & Amazon Product Reviews
Website Guides & Amazon Product Reviews
A Refrigerator Full of Best-By Dates Somewhere in a New Hampshire kitchen, a burrito sits in the freezer with a date stamped on the wrapper that nobody thought twice about until this week. Aug. 7. Aug. 10. Aug. 12. A…
A Ticket in Manchester and a Machine in Florida Somewhere in England this month, a person who has never seen a Powerball drawing in their life bought a lottery powerball ticket for a game that, until three weeks ago, they…
A Number That Moved Twice in Six Months Amazon AI spending has already jumped once this year, and the company shows no sign of being done. In February, Amazon told investors it would spend roughly $200 billion building artificial intelligence…
The Man Who Built It Wants to Tear Down Part of It Ted Benna spent four decades watching his invention become the backbone of American retirement savings. Now 84, he is the reason tens of millions of workers have a…
A Skunk at a Party Nobody Wants to Leave Jamie Dimon has a habit of saying the thing that makes a room go quiet. On a Wednesday appearance on CNBC, the Jamie Dimon AI warning did it again, reaching for…
The Lease Nobody Wants to Break A decade ago, a renter signing a twelve-month lease treated it as a placeholder. Something better, cheaper, or closer to a new job was probably a year away. That assumption has quietly collapsed. Renter…
A Bet That Doesn’t Fit the Usual Pattern Wall Street analysts do not, as a rule, put triple-digit return forecasts on companies that lose money and are expected to keep losing it. That kind of number belongs to speculative biotech,…
The Math Nobody Explains at Closing Ask a loan officer why your rate is 6.69% instead of 4% and you’ll usually get a shrug, or a reference to "the Fed." Neither answer is right. The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark…
Eleven Words in an Investor Letter Most investor letters are written to be forgotten. Alex Karp’s letter to Palantir Technologies shareholders on Aug. 3 was not. Buried in a document full of the usual charts and caveats sat one sentence…
The Wire Transfer Nobody Warns You About The funeral is over, the will has cleared probate, and a check arrives from the estate attorney with your name on it. Nobody hands you a warning label with that check, but there…
The Month That Went Missing A mid-sized auto-parts supplier ships a container of brake components to a customer twelve times its size. The invoice goes out net-30. The payment arrives on day 58. Meanwhile, the supplier’s own raw-material vendor expects…
A Number You Never Look At Until You Need It Somewhere on your insurance card sits a string of numbers most drivers never think twice about: 100/300/50, maybe, or 50 It looks like a code, and for years it functions…
When a Home or Auto Policy Runs Out of Room Umbrella insurance exists for the moment a home or auto policy’s liability limit isn’t enough. A driver loses traction on a wet road, rear-ends another car, totals it, and injures…
A Slip on the Ice, a Six-Figure Bill Someone slips on ice on your front walkway and breaks several bones. A car loses traction on a rainy road and rear-ends another vehicle, totaling it and injuring the driver. Umbrella insurance…
A Plant That Changed Owners Because a Court Said So The LS Power acquisition of a Texas gas plant near Houston did not start with a buyer wanting an asset and a seller wanting cash. It started with federal antitrust…
Ten Columns and Not One Clue Where to Start Open a stock’s options page for the first time and the screen resists you. Rows stack on top of rows, numbers that share no obvious relationship to the stock’s actual price…