State Farm Life Insurance Co. recently agreed to a monumental settlement in a groundbreaking move that has brought relief to tens of thousands of policyholders. In an ongoing battle over alleged unauthorized rate calculations, nearly 53,000 life insurance policyholders found solace as the insurance giant conceded to their claims. At the heart of this lawsuit was the allegation that State Farm calculated the cost-of-insurance (COI) rates using unauthorized factors, including profits and expenses.

The big astrology news of this coming week already feels somewhat like old news. That’s because we’ve all been already in the swirls of it, it being the conjunction (union) between expansive Jupiter and inventive Uranus, which occurs exactly on Saturday, April 20. The ripples of this once-every-thirteen(or so)-year seismic alignment have been lending a background note of creativity or chaos (or both), for the last couple of weeks (if not longer).

In last week’s newsletter, I made the case why it’s better to get rich slowly rather than suddenly. Put simply, putting in the work and the time to build wealth over years or decades gives you the skills required to make that wealth last. At the end of the post, I teased my five-step plan I have been following for the past 5 years to build “FU” money slowly but surely.

Hi all! I’m back from a trip to Barcelona, if you’re interested what Chinese food I had there, check it outhere. This week, we’re making dumplings with a seasonal filling. The moment summer ended, I was ambushed by piles of pumpkins and advent calendars. In Germany, these are supermarket staples throughout the year's end. All of social media is screaming: cook pumpkin. Then I thought about a street snack I had some 20 years ago, called nangua jiaojiao (南瓜角角), a leaf-shaped dumpling filled with pumpkin and meat, commonly sold on the streets of the northeastern Sichuan town where I grew up.

Hello friends from ACROSS THE WORLD (so crazy that that’s true!) for your Friday night entertainment, may I present yet another installment of 3 Clicks & A Hick! This week our starting point was legendary Vaudeville and Movie Star Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry…. Better known as his stage name/character Stepin Fetchit! This takes us on a journey that eventually leads us into Norse mythology! As promised, after I finished the game, I went back and dug a little deeper on some links I found interesting along the way!