Plenty of people would stop worrying about money if they had a net worth of $2.3 million. That number dwarfs the median household net worth of $166,900, according to Census Bureau data, and it lands the earners comfortably in the 90th percentile of U.S. households. Nevertheless, a couple of very-well-off 37-year-olds recently wrote to money expert and self-made millionaire, Ramit Sethi,…
A controlling father sent his daughter photographs of two Saudi women who were mysteriously found dead in their Sydney unit after she refused to return from Australia for an arranged marriage. The father asked his daughter in a text message if the photos scared her and threatened: ‘I swear to God I will slaughter you, bury you…
Almost a quarter of millennials and Gen Z adults without children say they plan to stay that way. The reason? Money. About 23% of these adults, ranging from 18- to 43-years-old, said their financial motivation to remain childless boils down to two issues: valuing the financial freedom that comes from not having kids, as well…
Earlier this year, Allen Watson stopped treating himself to his favorite McDonald’s meal: the biscuits-and-gravy combo with a sausage patty and Diet Coke. A startup cofounder from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, he says the $11 he spent on the meal one January day finally shocked him into abstinence. “That’s crazy to me, because the sit-down…
Each quarter, my company Sift produces an index report to better understand the latest online fraud trends, including how businesses and consumers are affected, emerging fraud tactics, and how fraud impacts consumer behavior when making purchases online. For the past two quarters, we’ve seen a surprising generational divide emerge: Gen Z—born between 1997 and 2012—expresses…
A woman has expressed her frustration after her 24-year-old friend, Anna, recently welcomed her first baby. Since then, she hasn’t been able to go anywhere without bringing her baby along. Posting to the subreddit r/AITA, she claimed that her friend’s insistence on bringing her baby everywhere has led to an imbalance in their friend group…
Home prices are up 42% since 2020, but because both rates and borrowing costs have skyrocketed, you need to earn 80% more to comfortably afford a home in today’s market. Median incomes have risen just 23% over the past four years, leaving many people out of the running for homeownership. In 2020, a household earning…
When a staid American institution is declared dead, the news media like to haul the same usual suspect before the court of public opinion: the Millennial generation. The 80 million–plus people born in the United States between the early 1980s and the late 1990s stand accused of assassinating various hallmarks of modern life. The list…
Following Kyle Gass’s onstage joke about the attempted Donald Trump assassination — which, to many, seemed pretty in line with Tenacious D’s whole thing — Jack Black (possibly indefinitely) parted ways with his former creative partner and Gass was dropped by his agent. Many fans of the duo were surprised and disappointed by Black’s reaction…