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The Write-Down Was Coming Either Way
A foundation spent $200,000 and 26,000 people stopped owing money. It worked because the debt had already lost nearly all of its value, which is the…
Jul 28
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The Debt Built To Outlive You
The servicer got paid either way and steered borrowers into the plan that grew the balance. Navient paid $1.85 billion for it.
Jul 21
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The 350-Home Line, and the Eleven Doors Cut Into It
The law banning Wall Street from buying your neighbor's house has a number in it, 350, and the homes it lets Wall Street keep buying do not count toward…
Jul 16
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That $1,900 "Skin-to-Skin" Bill Probably Isn't Real
But a real one exists: $39.35 on a 2016 C-section bill. That single line gives away why your whole birth bill is fiction.
Jul 6
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Put Down the Screwdriver, You Menace
Right to repair, Ford, and DMCA Section 1201: the software locks that turn owning your car into renting permission to fix it.
Jul 1
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June 2026
Everyone Left the Exchange. You Got the Bill.
Two ways the insurance cliff bills the people who are not in the headline.
Jun 29
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The Lottery Took $194 From Every Adult in New York. Then It Told Them to Dream Bigger.
Forty-five states run the same game, and both parties cash the same check.
Jun 22
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Scalped Themselves
The 2026 World Cup's official resale platform takes 30% of a ticket it already sold you. FIFA banned the scalpers, then became the only one.
Jun 19
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Start Here
I read the manuals for the systems taking your money, then I translate them.
Jun 18
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Gone By August
Missouri put $42.5 million into temporary World Cup work at Arrowhead Stadium, part of nearly $200 million in public funds for Kansas City's six…
Jun 17
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They Bought the Pharmacy
Tennessee's FAIR Rx Act bars a pharmacy benefit manager from owning the pharmacy that fills your prescription. Express Scripts and CVS sued to stop it
Jun 16
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Permission to Exist
Apple and Google have charged a 30 percent App Store commission since 2008. On June 25 the Supreme Court weighs whether to even hear Apple's appeal.
Jun 15
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