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4 Monkeys & a Goat! The Fed Is “Independent,” CNN Is Math-Challenged, and St. Louis Is Living in a Simulation If you’re looking for a calm, measured explanation of the Federal Reserve, inflation, monkey ownership laws, or why a goat briefly became…

There was a time when watching the St. Louis Cardinals was simple. You turned on the TV, found the channel, and let the game live in the background while you did something productive, like pretending to understand your retirement account. Now? Watc…

Starbucks Isn’t a Coffee Shop. It’s a Bank With a Siren Problem. Let’s get something straight right out of the gate: this is not an anti-coffee post. We love coffee. We need coffee. Half of America would collapse into a heap of sweatpants and unpai…

This year’s holiday shopping feels like a gym treadmill set to “incline 12.” You are moving, sweating, and somehow not getting anywhere. We’ve all seen the headlines about record Cyber Week sales, then opened our cards and thought, “Cool, I guess th…

The Nancy Brannon Case: What Still Keeps Me Up I can’t shake the story of Nancy Leah Brannon. She was 34, it was the week of Thanksgiving 1986, and she vanished between a south city night out and her apartment in Shrewsbury. Nearly four decades lat…

Unraveling the Epstein Files, With Jokes We Probably Should Not Tell Episode link: https://youtu.be/P-tusSM-bys?si=H6nGm4j0QCtJNbGC What this one’s about We fired up the mics, cracked a cold El Presidente (Dominican for “yes please”), and talked …

TL;DR: Smaller monthly, giant lifetime bill. Equity crawls, risk climbs. We like Trump, we don’t like this one. “Affordability you feel now, interest you pay forever.” What Even Is It? Stretch a standard loan from 30 to 50 years to shave the …