Editor’s Note: I hadn’t appreciated the role that normalcy plays in allowing me to be sarcastic and jokey about the various topics I write about, until, well, everything stopped being normal. Please allow me some grace as I try to find a tone that is appropriately direct and honest, and still tries to find some humor in these dark days. - Tim
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The Designed for Whom? Edition
Editors’ Note: Hi, it’s Laura and Jonathan again. As a reminder, we’re taking the wheel here every other edition and Tim will be back with you in a couple weeks. One question kept surfacing as we assembled this edition. Emergency savings advice built for stable households, child savings accounts that work best for families who already have 529s, and jobs policy that still imagines a mid-20th century labor market—Who are these systems designed for, really? - Laura Freschi and Jonathan Morduch
Read MoreThe Post-Equilibria Edition
Editors’ Note: This was an unusually difficult to organize and write faiV for two reasons--it feels like everything is some combination of AI and politics, and the new things just kept coming so fast, shifting how I was thinking about and grouping items, which is an item in itself. It’s going to get messy from here. If you’re nostalgic for a simpler world, and you happen to be near Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, New York or St. Louis, you should join us for one of our Small Firm Diaries-USA mid-point events in the next few weeks.- Tim
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