News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week’s reads include: (1) Wages are rising, but inflation may have given workers a 2% pay cut, (2)Chinese Tech Stock Selloff Deepens, (3) Female Startup CEOs Cut Their Salaries 30 Percent During the Pandemic. Men Gave Themselves a Raise, (4) ‘A Wild 15 Months’: Pandemic Spurs Conversion of Offices to Labs, (5) BlackRock voted against 255 directors because of climate issues, and a Bonus article - The Math Ph.D. Who Just Shocked Olympic Cycling.

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week’s reads include: (1) The Battles to Come Over the Benefits of Working From Home, (2) Low Pay, No Benefits, Rude Customers: Restaurant Workers Quit At Record Rate, (3) Collapse Raises New Fears About Florida’s Shaky Insurance Market, (4) The next inflation driver to worry about, (5) Urgent Action Needed to Address a Worsening ‘Two-Track’ Recovery, and a Bonus article - How An Armless Archer Trains His Brain To Win Olympic Medals.

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week’s reads include: (1) Inflation Is Still High. Used Car Prices Could Help Explain What Happens Next, (2) ‘Financially Hobbled for Life’: The Elite Master’s Degrees That Don’t Pay Off, (3) California hit by record-breaking fire destruction: ‘Climate change is real, it’s bad’, (4) Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: 'It's time to recognize the right to repair', (5) Buy, Borrow, Die: How Rich Americans Live Off Their Paper Wealth, and a Bonus article - ‘I hope you get hit by a car’: After customers berate staff, Cape restaurant shuts for ‘Day of Kindness’

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week’s reads include: (1) Beware Of 'Shrinkflation,' Inflation's Devious Cousin, (2)You're not the only one who's had enough — 95 percent of workers are considering quitting, report says, (3) ‘Our Menu Is Very Darwinian.’ Leading McDonald’s in 2021, (4) Great Jones Cookware and the Illusion of the Millennial Aesthetic, (5) When a 59% Annual Return Just Isn’t Enough, and a Bonus article - A Brief History of the American Cookout

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week’s reads include: (1) As The Pandemic Recedes, Millions Of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit' (2)The Broken Promise of Retirement, (3) Black-owned businesses reflect on a year in the spotlight, (4) The economics of dollar stores, (5) How Litigation Finance Toppled the Fortunes of a Real Housewives Star, and a Bonus article - Spiders Covered Australian Shores With a Massive, Gossamer Blanket

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week’s reads include: (1) Why has Andy Karsner frightened the mighty ExxonMobil? (2) Lifelong Exercise Adds Up to Big Health Care Savings, (3) The Dangers of Working While Black on Wall Street, (4) As Money Launderers Buy Dalís, U.S. Looks at Lifting the Veil on Art Sales, (5) Smart Thermostats Are Turning Down Air Conditioners During Heatwave, and a Bonus article - US sprinters are expected to be real contenders at the Tokyo Olympics

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week’s reads include: (1) Fed holds rates steady but raises inflation expectations sharply, (2) Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan is hoarding cash because ‘very good chance’ inflation is here to stay, (3) National Parks Are Overcrowded and Closing Their Gates, (4) Want Your Nails Done? Let a Robot Do It, (5) Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine to launch what could be ‘the coolest high school in America’, and a Bonus article - This Is the Story of a Man Who Jumped Into Lake Michigan Every Day for Nearly a Year.

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week’s reads include: (1) AMC Drama Is Exposing Risks in $11 Trillion World of Indexing (2) Illinois Sports Facilities Authority debt restructuring spares Chicago budget (3) Dark Patterns that Mislead Consumers Are All Over the Internet (4) Rx Price Watch Report: Trends in Retail Prices of Brand Name Prescription Drugs Widely Used by Older Americans, 2006 to 2020 (5) How the Ford F-150 Lightning’s Chief Engineer Linda Zhang Brought the World an Electric Pickup and a Bonus article - In Praise of Small Menus

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week’s reads include: (1) Before She Was C.E.O., She Cleaned Toilets. ‘How Wonderful Is That?’ (2) The human factor — why data is not enough to understand the world (3) The Economic Recovery Is Here. It’s Unlike Anything You’ve Seen (4) JBS cyberattack: From gas to meat, hackers are hitting the nation, and consumers, where it hurts (5) What the Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed and a Bonus article - A pandemic hobby that didn’t quite work out

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week’s reads include: (1) Electric F-150 Has Unusual Perk: Ability to Power a Home (2) What We Spent in a Month (3) The Hidden Cost of Cheap Fashion Could Catch Up to Investors (4) ‘The final straw’: How the pandemic pushed restaurant workers over the edge (5) What Does Bitcoin Volatility Mean for Other Assets? and a Bonus article - The Next Battle of the Alamo!