Jeremy Olshan on LinkedIn: Paying Big Bills on Your Credit Card Can Rack Up Points—and Fees (2024)

Disputing a charge on a credit card used to be the nuclear option. For many dissatisfied shoppers it is now step one. The card companies call it “friendly fraud.”

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She left him 35 years ago. He left her $1 million. Whether he really meant for his ex-girlfriend from the 1980s to inherit all his retirement savings is the subject of an 8-year legal fight, Ashlea Ebeling writes in this crazy story. It’s also a cautionary tale:

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Paying cash used to get you a discount. Now there's often a fee! The latest installment in Oyin Adedoyin's series on how cash fell from king to second-class citizen.

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The reading of a will can propel any family from grief to grievances, from writing a eulogy to writing a checks to retain a lawyer. The chance this happens rise significantly when stepparents and stepchildren are involved (as is the case for more than 1 in 5 opposite-sex partners), Ashlea Ebeling reports. There are legal, cultural and emotional reasons for this -- and there are steps to take to avoid the worst-case scenarios.

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The idea that happiness maxed out at a salary of $75,000 made that improbable jump from peer review to internet meme. It was also probably wrong -- though as with the 10,000-hour rule, the nuances of the research got lost in the virality, Joe Pinsker writes. Humans have been trying to understand the relationship between money and happiness for thousands of years. Aristotle said a life of virtue was worth more than income and wealth. Oscar Wilde said it's better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. Economists and psychologists are still sorting it out...

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One of the no-brainer reasons to invest in a 401(k) is the promise of “free money” in the form of matching employer contributions. But as Anne Tergesen writes based on exclusive new data, what was intended as policy to get more people to save has mainly benefited the high earners who were already saving. It’s a good opportunity to bring a critical lens to something we take for granted as a good.

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Congrats to Oyin Adedoyin and Katherine Hamilton on what has to be the commenter equivalent of winning a Pulitzer:

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