Economy Posts

Before Midnight At 6:14 on Tuesday morning, Evan Mercer learned that he had $147 in checking. This was not technically a crisis. A crisis was a tornado. A crisis was a chemical spill. A crisis was the mayor accidentally saying something racist whil…

College was sold as the ticket to the middle class. Get the degree. Get the job. Buy the house. Start the family. Build the life. Retire someday before your knees file for divorce. That was the pitch. And to be fair, for a lot of people, college …

NFNP 2x26 — Mark Greaves Returns Pt. 2 There used to be a simple life path in America. Graduate school. Get a job. Meet someone. Buy a house. Mow the lawn. Complain about the water bill. Stand in the garage with your hands on your hips and say, “We…

One of the richest places in human history somehow feels like the opening scene of a dystopian HBO series. That was the core takeaway from our recent NFNPPOD episode, where we dove headfirst into California’s fires, homelessness crisis, six-dollar g…

Welcome back to Notorious Friday Night Posse Rants, Raves & Real Talk, where we tackle the things Big Media pretends are “normal.” This week, we zero in on the one bill that sticks with you longer than high school debt, bad tattoos, and that mall ha…

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…

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 …