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The New Student Loan Rule Isn't About Debt—It's About Control The Department of Education just finalized a 185-page rule that fundamentally re-engineers the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, or PSLF. The official narrative is one of...
So, the market decided to have a complete and total meltdown today. You could almost hear the collective gasp across trading floors as the closing bell rang, putting a merciful end to a session drenched in red ink. The NASDAQ, that holy tem...
You probably saw the headlines. "S&P 500 Dragged Down by Tech," S&P 500, Nasdaq down as some Big Tech earnings fail the hype. You saw the tickers blinking red next to giants like Microsoft and Meta, and you might have felt a familiar pang o...
So, I did something no sane human does. I actually read the NBCUniversal Cookie Notice. You know, that wall of text that pops up and blocks the article you wanted to read, forcing you to click "Accept All" just to make it go away. I waded t...
So, Meta just dropped its third-quarter earnings, and on the surface, it’s all sunshine and rainbows. Sales are up a whopping 26% to $51 billion. They’ve got 3.54 billion people—that’s nearly half the planet—checking their apps every single...
The Anatomy of a 270% Stock Surge: Is Cambium's Starlink Deal Substance or Speculation? It's not every day you see a stock behave like Cambium Networks (CMBM) did. A single press release, and the market reprices the company upward by nearly...
The AI Spending Spree Hits Its First Wall of Doubt The market has a notoriously short memory, but its core logic, however crude, is relentless: show me the money. For the past 18 months, the logic applied to Big Tech was simple. Any headlin...
The Tell-Tale Heart of a Dying Economy Another WARN notice hits the wire. Another corporate statement, polished to a sterile sheen, talks of "strategic decisions" and "network consolidation." In this case, it’s an HD Supply facility in Midd...
The headlines are practically writing themselves this week: "Mortgage Rates Hit One-Year Low." Data from Zillow pegs the 30-year fixed average at 6.09%, while Optimal Blue reports 6.155%. For the first time in what feels like an eternity, t...
The Day the Future Arrived, and Immediately Crashed Imagine spending years meticulously designing and building the most advanced starship humanity has ever conceived. Every wire, every weld, every line of code is a testament to human ingenu...