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Daily Skimm: Voilà, le French fry

Skimm'd while planning a last-minute viewing party JULY 30, 2019 READ IN BROWSER Skimm'd while planning a last-minute viewing party   QUOTE OF THE DAY   "It's just insane" – A 16-year-old from Pennsylvania who won $3 million in the Fortnite World Cup. So that was a valid career option no one told us about. SNIP, SNIP The Story Tomorrow, the Federal Reserve is expected to bring interest rates down . Well isn't that fun. It is for the stock market . If you were wondering what the money doctors at the Fed do, they take the US's economic temperature and prescribe interest rates. The goal is to keep the economy growing nice an...

Daily Skimm: I've got sunshine on a cloudy day

Skimm'd with a passport to better money habits JULY 29, 2019 READ IN BROWSER Skimm'd with a passport to better money habits   QUOTE OF THE DAY   "My instructions from the Duchess were clear: 'I want to see freckles!'" – The photographer for the September 2019 issue of British Vogue that Meghan Markle guest-edited. Freckles? On a Vogue cover? (Actually) groundbreaking. MEET, THE OPPOSITION The Story People in Moscow want free and fair elections. Now. What's this about? The Russian capital's city council election, set to happen in September. It has 45 seats that have five-year terms and all of them are up ...