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life for everyone 24 Jul
Unreachability Became a Luxury Good
The dumbphone is sold as a cure for your attention, but the market and the one strong study both say it is really about who can afford to switch off.
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Gentle Parenting Is Getting a Sturdy Rewrite
Willamette Week reports that gentle parenting's biggest name has named the overcorrection herself, and the fix parents want looks less like negotiation and more like a decision.
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life for everyone
The Euro Wants a New Face. Whose, Exactly, Is Still Being Litigated.
The ECB has shortlisted ten euro banknote designs and opened a public vote, but hiding the designers' names does not hide the fight over whose Europe gets printed.
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life for everyone 21 Aug
Seventeen Quarters of Borrowing Against the House
Both of this year's headline debt paydowns dissolve on contact with the New York Fed's own tables, and the borrowing against the house never paused.
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life for everyone 20 Aug
"One mortgage rate, four markets, and a 25 percent outlier"
The 30-year rate is identical in every American county, which is why it cannot explain a county that rose 25 percent while the region around it fell.
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life for everyone 28 Jul
"Affluent US investors want $530,000 saved before a micro-retirement"
The survey now quoted for the Gen Z career-break trend screened for portfolios of at least $100,000, and its US respondents would start at 46.
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life for everyone 24 Jul
The care your parents need is being paid for with your debt
More than half of working Americans in their 40s and 50s caring for a parent spent $5,000 or more on it last year, and a third took on debt.
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life for everyone 18 Jul
The Run Club Is the New Singles Bar, and It Still Charges a Cover
American Gen Z is walking out of the dating apps and into a 6 a.m. parking lot, but the swing from swipe to sneaker is being re-priced, not set free.
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life for everyone 18 Jul
The Third Place Closes First Where It Was Already Scarce
Americans' time with friends fell 37 percent before the pandemic, and the gathering places that might have held it are closing fastest where they were always scarce.
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life for everyone 17 Jul
The First-Time Buyer Is Now Forty
The median first-time homebuyer just hit forty, the oldest on record, but the number measures a closing door, not a generation choosing to wait.
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