Whizy Kim

Welcome to Taking Stock, a space where we can take a deep breath and try to figure out what the COVID-19 economy really means for our finances. Every month

A stranger asking me where I’m from doesn’t horrify me — it just jolts me out of place. Suddenly I’m looking at myself from outside my own body, as

Welcome to Taking Stock, a space where we can take a deep breath and try to figure out what the COVID-19 economy really means for our finances. Every

The idea of credit is simple — and old. You want something that you can’t offer anything for at the moment, so you work something out with the vendor.

Right now, Wall Street is in chaos — and it’s all thanks to Reddit and GameStop, a video game retailer that people visited in the early 2000s and f

Complaining about work is normal. In fact, it’s an utterly ordinary thing to do even if you generally enjoy your job. We might groan about a tough pr

People celebrate their birthdays in various idiosyncratic ways, but there are some near-universal traditions: having cake, blowing out candles and making a

Welcome to Taking Stock, a space where we can take a deep breath and try to figure out what the COVID-19 economy really means for our finances. Every month

This past Thursday, during possibly one of the most hectic news weeks of the year, Amazon published a blog post announcing their dedication to more compreh

There’s no COVID-19 vaccine yet, but some CEOs seem to be itching to have employees within their sights again. According to Bloomberg, in a recent meetin

Remember the early days of the coronavirus, when we earnestly thought that, surely, this would all blow over in a couple of weeks? Since then, we’ve take

It’s been a subdued summer for most of us, with none of the usual vacation plans and get-togethers. But that doesn’t mean we can’t be making plans fo

Since non-essential businesses closed due to COVID-19 and unemployment claims skyrocketed (more than 2.1 million people have filed since mid-March in the U

the exact terms of your bills aren’t written in stone: they can be negotiated.

In the UK, unemployment increased from 500,000 to 1.35 million in the first three months of the year. It’s unclear how long the devastating economic effe

Today, dozens of Facebook employees are participating in a virtual walkout protesting the company’s inaction toward President Trump’s recent social med

If you’re one of the millions that has lost their job in the months since the COVID-19 pandemic became a national crisis, you may now be facing a postmod

Before a global pandemic locked down states across the nation, working from home was a coveted privilege: you could have a little WFH, as a treat. You look