Health Insurance Up 6%+ in 2024

WSJ reports that health insurance costs are expected to rise 6%+ for 2024. My personal premiums + deductibles line up so insurance doesn’t cover anything significantly until I’ve spent $22,000 – $30,000 in combined health care and premium costs. And that assumes...

WSJ: The Case for Trumpless Thursdays

I love it. Dur­ing the ra­tioning days of World War II, there was the weekly event called Meat­less Tues­day. To save meat for the troops, civil­ians were asked to cut it from their di­ets one day each week… It was con­sid­ered an act of pa­tri­o-tism....
More Prigozhin

More Prigozhin

At this point I think the morbid story is interesting to most in the West as a plot straight out of James Bond — it isn’t likely to have a meaningful effect on any of our lives nor provide an accurate narrative for years. That said: WSJ reports that DOD thinks it was...

Is the cybersecurity job market losing steam?

The Wall Street Journal reports today (2023-08-21): More Cyber Companies Announce Layoffs. It’s not a clickbait headline, there really are companies laying off cybersecurity workers but it’s important to realize it isn’t indicative of the larger job market. The...