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Americans are saving far less than normal in 2023. Here's why - CNBC

The U.S. personal savings rate remains below its historical average, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

The seasonally adjusted annual rate of personal saving was 4.6% in February. That's well below the average annual rate of more than 8%, according to the data, which traces back to 1959. In June 2022, the rate had dipped to 2.7%, a 15-year low.

This was a large fall from periods of the pandemic when households across the country were saving as much as 30% of their monthly income.

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Emotionally Intelligent People Use These 4 Words When Greeting Someone They've Met but Don't Remember - Inc.com

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A man walked up to me on Saturday at the Nascar race weekend in Chicago. "Hi, Jeff," he said, smiling. "We met last year in Dubai. How have you been?"

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MAGA Bluey Is Stressing People Out - The Atlantic

Facebook’s largest group for posting memes about the beloved children’s show has turned into a political free-for-all.

Samantha Speiller, of Round Rock, Texas, started watching Bluey with her young daughter in the early months of the pandemic. Two years later, by then a dedicated fan of the wise and beloved Australian cartoon, she joined a Facebook group for Bluey memes. Here was Bluey, the six-year-old dog and title character, looking exasperated and saying, “But I don’t want a life lesson! I just want an ice cream!” And there was Bandit, her beleaguered father-dog, drinking coffee at a table with a sign that reads, Bluey is a show for adults, disguised as a kid’s show. Change my mind. Speiller was not herself an active poster in the group, and saw only the memes from other people that happened to pop up in her News Feed.

But at some point this past spring, Speiller noticed that the Facebook group, called “Bluey Memes💙,” had taken on a different character. At first the change was subtle—a slow drift into the culture wars. One post from April shows Bluey at the park with Bandit, who is pointing out of frame and saying, “Look at these butthurt groomers.” Another meme from May had a friend of Bluey’s thinking, “It’s okay to be white.” By then, the drift had become a rush: Fat-shaming Bluey memes had appeared, alongside anti-nose-ring memes, homophobic memes, Roe-reversal memes, and many more. By August, Speiller felt that she’d seen enough. “It was the picture of Bandit in the MAGA hat that made me quit,” she told me.

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Can you bring weed on a plane? It's complicated - CNBC

As weed becomes legal in more states, how and if travelers can bring their stash on board remains up in the air.

Twenty-one states and Washington, D.C., have legalized recreational use for adults 21 years and older, and 37 states and Washington, D.C., have medical marijuana programs. But marijuana is still illegal under federal law.

That leaves travelers hoping to fly with pot on domestic U.S. flights to face an ever-changing patchwork of conflicting state and federal laws.

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