Welcome to Net Worthy: our slightly less researched, slightly more reactive foray into the week’s financial, economic, Bravo, and tech headlines.

This week, Annie and Zoë get into Meredith Marks’ very face-lift-forward presence on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, the Federal Reserve, why the Fed is independent-ish from the government, and the century of financial panic that somehow got us here. Zoë also explains why long-term Treasury bonds just had their worst decade since the Great Depression, why rising interest rates were so brutal for existing bondholders, and why those same higher yields might suddenly make bonds attractive again.

Then, the girls run through the rest of the week’s economic group chat — California billionaires spending millions to fight a billionaire tax, McDonald’s developing menu options for the GLP-1 economy, and Meta’s new AI agent discovering that Americans are paying $157 a month for subscriptions they forgot existed.

Plus, what happens to banks when AI agents can automatically move your money into higher-yield accounts, whether the subscription economy should be afraid of your robot personal assistant, and other headlines we unfortunately now have opinions about.

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