Wednesday Reading List
Are You Feeling the Financial Stress of the Sandwich Generation?
Our team’s latest looks at how to financially care for you, your kids, and your parents.
Recession Blues: Unfounded Fear?
Liz Ann Sonders on recession fears. Given the Federal Reserve’s shift to tighter monetary policy, the impact of rampant inflation on growth, and now the deleterious impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, dusting off the recession playbook is in order.
“The first rule of a happy life is low expectations. If you have unrealistic expectations you’re going to be miserable your whole life. You want to have reasonable expectations and take life’s results good and bad as they happen with a certain amount of stoicism.“
The Worst Run For Bonds Since 1980
Bonds are getting killed, but there’s a silver lining.
Russia’s billionaires: Who they are, what they own — and can they influence Vladimir Putin?
Targeting oligarchs is popular. It’s not clear it can help end a war.
These are Netflix’s Most Popular Shows (According to Netflix)
We analyzed eight months of Netflix viewership data to determine what is and isn’t working on the world’s most popular TV network.
Afghanistan’s last finance minister, now a D.C. Uber driver, ponders what went wrong
Until last summer, Khalid Payenda was Afghanistan’s finance minister, overseeing a $6 billion budget — the lifeblood of a government fighting for its survival in a war that had long been at the center of U.S. foreign policy.
Book Recommendation
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon by Robert Kurson
The riveting inside story of three heroic astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind’s historic first mission to the Moon, from the bestselling author of Shadow Divers.
