New Bill Would Use IRS Data To Automatically Put Struggling Student Loan Borrowers Into Low PaymentsSeptember 6, 2026
How does a fibre-optic cable no thicker than a garden hose carry roughly 99 per cent of intercontinental internet traffic across 13,000 kilometres of ocean floor? Saving Tips August 9, 2026 The answer is that the cable is barely doing the work. The glass inside it is. Every intercontinental fibre carries…
Content and cloud networks now account for three-quarters of used international bandwidth, while Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon own, co-own or buy capacity on a growing share of the 600-plus submarine cable systems carrying over 99 per cent of data between countries, a private map hidden below the wireless internet Saving Tips July 28, 2026 More than 99 per cent of international data traffic descends from coastal landing stations into hair-thin glass fibres and crosses…
When the SS Great Eastern laid the first working transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866, a message that had taken ten days by steamship suddenly crossed the ocean in minutes, and the financial markets of London and New York were forced, within a single trading week, to invent the modern concept of synchronised global price. Saving Tips June 8, 2026 On the morning of July 27, 1866, the SS Great Eastern dropped anchor in Heart’s Content, Newfoundland, with 1,686 nautical…
Finally Cut Cable To Prepare For Harder Times Ahead Personal Finance February 25, 2026 After three consecutive years of double-digit returns in the S&P 500 since 2023, I decided to cut cable. The reason…
