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Olivia Chen

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A gas station price sign showing prices around four dollars a gallon
Personal Finance
Wednesday, 8/19, 10:40 PM

When driving across town for cheaper gas actually pays off

  • With the US average at about $4.09 a gallon and rising, chasing a cheaper pump is tempting.
  • The math says it only works when the discount is big, the detour is short, or the station is already on your route.
  • Here is how to run the numbers, and what saves more with less effort.
The emergency entrance of a hospital
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The HSA and its triple tax break, explained

  • A health savings account is the only common US account that is taxed favorably at all three stages: money goes in pre-tax, grows untaxed, and comes out untaxed for medical costs.
  • The catch is a real one: you can only contribute while covered by a qualifying high-deductible health plan, and the 2026 thresholds are specific.

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Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
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The GameStop Short Squeeze of 2021: When Reddit Took On Wall Street

  • In January 2021, an army of small investors organizing on Reddit sent shares of a struggling video-game retailer, GameStop, from around $17 to a pre-market peak above $500 — inflicting huge losses on hedge funds that had bet against it.
  • The episode rewrote assumptions about who moves markets.

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