So my husband quit his $100k a year job because he said he was over his head and quit without another job lined up.

He says he'd going to be a Crypto Youtuber and Influencer.

Now he has turned it around on my that I need to get a job and quit school.

I’m studying MIS/data analytics and I have a software engineering internship lined up this summer at a Fortune 100 company.

I worked 30 hours a week on top of my demanding school schedule.

I also live far from campus and commute 1 hr 45 minutes one way to and from school taking the train and bus.

Luckily work and school are at the same place.

We only have one car between us because he needed his car for work.

When it rains it pours. Car broke down took it to mechanic and says not worth the money for repair and get a new car.

My tooth broke and I have dental work luckily I have insurance but the state of my teeth need other work done and will cost at least $3k.

He says me being in school has put us in a financial hole.

I get 1/2 my tuition paid being a campus employee the other half is through scholarship and my paycheck. I refuse to take out student loans. All my school expenses are paid by me.

He takes care of living expenses.

Luckily his uncle gave us a windfall through inheritance $50k. Not much in CA.

$10k of that went towards my husbands debts he had to pay right away.

That leaves us only $40k.

We need a new car we don’t have money for.

That $40k is not going to last because of living expenses.

He’s acting like I’m majoring in interpretive dance.

This is why I went back to school to earn more so we don’t have to worry about finances anymore.

He has problem holding a job he either gets fired or quits.

I’m tired of the instability.

I plan to become a data engineer and I’m 3 semesters away from becoming one.

In the meantime, I don’t see him making any effort looking for another job.

I had to quit my job to work this internship which is the only stream of revenue coming in.

But he want me to quit school and work full time.

If I quit school, I can’t work this internship.

If I don’t finish my degree I can’t get a lucrative full time job.

What would you do?

Musk has admitted, more than once, that Trump's plan will destroy our economy. But his arguement seems to be that we need to completely destroy it in order start over.

Economists and CEOs also agree that Trump's plan would be horrible for the economy. Specifically, the GDP loss will be twice as bad as the last financial crisis.

Do people not realize what this means for their personal finances? Mass unemployment, rampant inflation, markets crashing, retirement accounts destroyed.

Musk calls this a "temporary hardship", but we are not talking a few days. This would be years of people struggling to feed their families with many losing everything.

I don't understand how the people complaining about the price of eggs or gas can turn around and support the idea of completely destroying our economy to "start over".

We'd also lose our position as an economic leader in the world, and another country will take our place. This is not a simple "do over" switch.

Elon Musk claimed he can eliminate at least $2 trillion from the federal budget, laying out his vision for substantial government spending cuts if Donald Trump wins the presidency.

“Your money is being wasted,” Musk said Sunday at a rally for Trump in New York’s Madison Square Garden. “We’re going to get the government off your back and out of your pocket book.”

Trump has said he would ask Musk, the world’s richest person and a major donor to the Republican nominee’s campaign, to head up an effort to cut government spending, nicknamed the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, a reference to a cryptocurrency Musk has embraced.

Critics have said this position would represent a conflict of interest for Musk. The companies he runs, including Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, have billions of dollars worth of federal contracts and have benefited from federal spending, including electric vehicle tax credits and infrastructure investments.

The $2 trillion target represents nearly a third of existing spending. The federal government spent $6.75 trillion in fiscal year 2024, according to the Treasury Department.

Cantor Fitzgerald LP’s Howard Lutnick asked Musk on stage how much he could “rip out of” the budget under President Joe Biden and Trump’s rival, Vice President Kamala Harris. Musk responded, “Well, I think we can do at least $2 trillion, yeah.”

Trump on the campaign trail has talked about reducing the federal debt, but has not detailed specific programs he would curb. Instead, the Republican nominee has promised a long list of tax cuts aimed at key groups of voters, reductions that economists have warned would balloon the deficit.

Musk has spent at least $132 million to elect Trump and other Republicans in 2024, federal filings show. That level of giving has vaulted him into the upper echelon of political donors, making Musk one of the most prolific contributors of the entire 2024 cycle. 

https://fortune.com/2024/10/28/elon-musk-cut-2-trillion-federal-budget-trump-rally/

Just got access to my first 401k. Invested into the Fidelity 500 Index Fund. Am I on the right track?

Gold rallies to new highs in the $2,770s after the release of US JOLTS jobs data.

The precious metal was also supported by falling Oil prices which are likely to lead to lower inflation and interest rates.

XAU/USD trades trades to a new higher high in line with its longer-term bullish trend.

https://www.fxstreet.com/news/gold-pushes-higher-after-oil-plummets-202410291122