What Financial Lessons Can Gen Z Learn from 80s Kids?If you grew up in the 1980s, you must be a firm believer in the fact that money doesn’t grow on trees. It was not just advice back then. It shaped the everyday behavior of households. Families stretched paychecks, reused belongings, and made money-saving choices all the time.Today’s financial world moves faster, and generations carry different mentalities for sure. Gen Z lives in a digital economy. It’s a world where payments happen in seconds. Loan approvals happen in minutes today. It’s a different world, but Gen Z can still learn a few things from their elders (and vice-versa) to grow. 80s Kids Money Habits: Learning Through RoutineFor many families in the 1980s, budgeting was hands-on and visible. They have to pay bills with checks. Their expenses were written down manually. Not to forget, grocery trips also followed strict lists. These habits encouraged patience and planning. On the other hand, credit was available, but quick or easy to access. Applying for a loan meant paperwork, branch visits, and waiting. That slower process naturally reduced impulsive borrowing.Children could see money management in action in the 80s through various actions, such as:Cooking most meals at home; very few eat-outsSaving leftovers and reducing food wasteRepairing appliances before replacing themReusing clothingMonitoring electricity and heating use closelyAvoiding credit unless necessaryGen Z Financial Behavior: Digital First and FlexibleGen Z grew up surrounded by financial technology. They manage accounts through apps. They have sites to compare pricing and apps to track spending in real time. Many of them love to openly discuss budgeting, side income, and investing strategies on digital platforms. In fact, 32 out of 100 Gen Z people save for emergencies.Common Gen Z money habits include:Using apps to categorize and monitor expensesAutomating savings and investment contributionsExploring multiple income streamsResearching financial products onlineComparing instant online loans from multiple lenders digitallyGen Z faces rising housing costs, student debt, and higher living expenses in 2026. Their digital tools help them stay informed. While access is faster, the need for thoughtful decisions remains unchanged.Monthly Utilities: Budgeting Then vs NowIn the 80s, conserving utilities required constant reminders. Today, technology supports efficiency. The shared lesson is awareness. Whether manual or automated, mindful usage lowers monthly expenses.How These Generations Take LoansLoan access highlights one of the clearest contrasts in budgeting then vs now.Borrowing In the 80sApplying for credit involved in personal visits and formal documentation. Approvals were not instant. Because the process took time, borrowers often evaluated whether debt was truly necessary. Loans were typically viewed as serious commitments rather than quick fixes.How Technology Changed Personal Finance?Gen Z has access to digital lending platforms that make borrowing fast and convenient. Applications can be completed online within minutes. Some options appear easy and quick, and certain lenders promote solutions even for individuals with bad credit.When unexpected expenses arise, some people consider a modern digital lending service to bridge temporary cash gaps. The important step is reviewing repayment terms carefully and ensuring the loan fits within actual income. Used responsibly, short-term borrowing can solve timing issues. Used carelessly, it can strain future budgets. Convenience has improved, but responsibility remains essential.Money Spent on Cars and GasIn both generations, transportation choices reflect broader financial pressures.For many 80s families, cars were long-term assets. Repairs were common, and upgrading vehicles required planning. Fuel costs were monitored. Families used to run errands combined to reduce unnecessary driving.Gen Z faces higher vehicle prices, insurance premiums, and variable gas costs. Some adapt by using public transportation or car pools. Money Spent on a Night OutEntertainment spending shows how payment methods influence behavior.The 80s ApproachA night out often had a clear cash limit. Once the money in your wallet was gone, spending stopped. That physical boundary helped control impulse purchases.The Gen Z ApproachThe cost of living across generations has changed in 2026. So, young adults consciously try limiting their night outs. Prioritizing savings or travel goals motivates them to do so.The cost of night outs (or even a night at home when you order from a restaurant) can actually be much higher if spending is not monitored carefully. Blending Generational StrengthsRather than choosing one era over the other, combining their strengths offers the best outcome.Lessons Gen Z Can Learn from 80s KidsPractice delayed gratificationSet firm spending limitsAvoid unnecessary debtLessons Older Generations Can Learn from Gen ZUse technology to track expenses efficientlyEmbrace open conversations about moneyDiversify income sources when possibleFinal WordTechnology has changed how finance works, but not the fundamentals. When old school discipline meets digital efficiency, financial decision-making becomes more balanced. That blend may be the most valuable generational lesson of all.

For the first time since 1980, the U.S. men’s hockey team has defeated our chief communist adversary in front of the entire world at the Winter Olympics. If you watched the gold-medal game, and you’re an American, you were probably enjoying yourself the entire time. I certainly was. It was a close game. It went to overtime. Our goalie looked like this: He’s got the American flag and a largemouth bass on his headgear, which is pretty hard to beat. And on top of that, he stopped something like 40 shots during the game. It was incredible to watch, even if you aren’t usually interested in hockey, which I’m not. Meanwhile, Jack Hughes took a high stick to the face, lost a tooth, scored the game-winning goal, and then gave a patriotic post-game interview that NBC briefly removed from social media. Watch: Jack Hughes processing the emotions of the CLUTCH overtime goal for GOLD!

Whoopi Goldberg floated a bizarre theory during Monday’s broadcast of “The View” on ABC, suggesting that FBI Director Kash Patel had been sent to Italy to watch Team USA’s first Olympic hockey gold medal in 46 years because the rank and file wanted him out of the way. Goldberg and her cohosts began the segment by bashing Patel for going to the championship game between fierce rivals, the United States and Canada, because that meant he was not present to handle other major issues in which the FBI has been deeply involved. Cohost Ana Navarro mentioned the videos that showed Patel partying with Team USA in the locker room after their overtime win, and complained that he was behaving like “a member of ‘Animal House,'” and claimed she had no idea what he was even doing there. Sara Haines argued that she personally would rather have a law enforcement leader who was “serious and borderline boring,” complaining that he was partying instead of dealing with real issues like the upheaval in Mexico and the Secret Service-involved shooting at Mar-a-Lago. “Right now the world doesn’t feel settled or stable, and you’ve got the head of the FBI, and the visual of chugging a beer in a locker room,” she added, arguing that he was not helping the administration to appear more “competent” and that the whole scenario was “a bit of an insult to the American people.” Whoopi suggests the rest of the FBI told Patel to get out of the office to get their “incompetent” boss out of their hair so they could do their jobs: “I’m going to put a positive spin on it. Maybe the folks in the FBI say, ‘yeah, Kash, go do that’ so they don’t have to deal with… pic.twitter.com/Fjof0tBmGn — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 23, 2026 Goldberg then pivoted to suggest that maybe the move had come at the behest of some in the FBI who felt that they would be better able to do their jobs if Patel was off doing something else. “I’m going to put a positive spin on it. Maybe the folks in the FBI say, ‘yeah, Kash, go do that’ so they don’t have to deal with him, because they know he doesn’t know what he’s doing,” she said. “They know that he is incompetent. They know that he is just — he is a joke and he is a joke in the rest of the world. And because for most of the people working in the FBI it is not a joke. They are the ones whose eyes are on the ball.” Patel himself addressed the media scrutiny in a post to X, saying that he’d been invited to celebrate with Team USA after their gold-medal win and had chosen to do so. “For the very concerned media — yes, I love America and was extremely humbled when my friends, the newly minted Gold Medal winners on Team USA, invited me into the locker room to celebrate this historic moment with the boys,” he said. “Greatest country on earth and greatest sport on earth.”

“The Sopranos” star Michael Imperioli suggested that the characters in the HBO crime drama would “probably” be supporters of Donald Trump if the show were made today. “The show is about the American dream, especially through the eyes of immigrants,” the actor said during an interview with The Independent this month.  “I think that would be one of the big themes if it was made today: the current climate in the US and what they’re doing to immigrants,” he went on. “The fact is that these characters are all immigrants, but I think a lot of them would probably be Trump supporters, oddly enough. So how do they reconcile those things? When Italians came over – and people forget this, or they don’t want to see it – a lot of them were undocumented,” the actor went on. Imperioli is best known for his starring role as Christopher Moltisanti in the iconic series, which many consider to be one of the greatest television shows ever made. “The Sopranos” ran for six seasons from 1999 to 2007, telling the story of mob boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) trying to balance family life with his violent career path. Imperioli was nominated for Emmy Awards four times, winning once for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama. This isn’t the first time Trump has been mentioned in conjunction with “The Sopranos.” In 2019, series creator David Chase said Gandolfini wouldn’t be a Trump fan.  “He would think the guy was full of [expletive],” he told The New York Times at the time. “Whether he thought he was a good president or not — I don’t know that Tony thought much about that question at all, with anybody who was in office. But I know Tony would have thought Trump was penny-ante, in terms of his lying and presentation.” The television exec also noted that A.J. Soprano, played by Robert Iler, would have been part of the first Trump administration.  “He might be the new chief of staff,” he told the outlet. “He’d be buddy-buddy with Stephen Miller, I know that.” Imperioli’s comments are in direct opposition to what he was saying in 2020 when the actor posted several memes about “Sopranos” characters being Biden supporters. “I’m taking ownership of the confusion between myself and the character and trying to control that narrative instead of letting it get away from me…. Taking these memes and the politics and just trying to say, ‘the Sopranos are woke now, and they’re campaigning for Biden,’” the actor told Vanity Fair at the time. 

Just a few years after boasting about how transgender surgeries were “huge money makers,” Vanderbilt University Medical Center will no longer perform the procedures. The Nashville-based health care center confirmed to The Daily Wire that the surgeries, which include procedures like crafting pseudo-genitalia for gender-confused individuals and removing the breasts of women who identify as men, were being phased out for logistical reasons. “Due to operational limitations and lack of surgical coverage, Vanderbilt Health will cease providing gender-affirming plastic surgeries for adults,” a spokesman for the hospital told The Daily Wire. “Vanderbilt Health continues to provide nonsurgical gender-affirming care for adults 19 years and older. Vanderbilt Health does not provide any gender-affirming care for patients younger than 19.” Vanderbilt University Medical Center, also known as Vanderbilt Health, is a separate entity from Vanderbilt University. The hospital’s transgender medical program first faced criticism in September 2022 when Daily Wire host Matt Walsh published videos highlighting comments from Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor discussing how lucrative transgender surgeries were. “It’s a lot of money,” said Taylor, the program’s director at the time. “These surgeries make a lot of money.” Taylor discussed how “chest reconstruction” could bring in $40,000 per patient and described “female-to-male bottom surgeries” — where a fake penis is constructed by taking skin from the forearm, abdomen, and thigh — as “huge money makers.” “These surgeries are labor intensive, there are a lot of follow-ups, they require a lot of our time, and they make money,” Taylor said. “They make money for the hospital.” Vanderbilt Health’s transgender center opened in 2018, and Taylor said its purpose was “to coordinate” patients’ “care wherever they are in the transition process.” Taylor has since left VUMC and now runs a primary care center in Massachusetts and describes herself as an expert in “general LGBTQ Health and Adolescent Medicine.” The investigation from Walsh prompted a statewide probe from Republican officials who moved quickly to pass a ban on transgender procedures for kids. That ban was challenged by the ACLU, but was upheld in June 2025 by the Supreme Court. Over two dozen states have passed laws to shield minors from transgender surgeries and hormonal procedures. The Trump administration has come down hard on hospitals that offer transgender procedures to kids, pulling federal funding and initiating investigations into hospitals across the country. One bill currently making its way through the Tennessee legislature would prohibit dollars from TennCare, the state’s health funding program for impoverished people, from funding transgender procedures.

A new digital ad in the Nebraska Senate race is bringing revelations from the Epstein files to the campaign trail. Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) released an ad pointing out Independent Dan Osborn’s canceled fundraiser with high-level Democratic strategist Dana Chasin, whose name was referenced in an email in the files for allegedly moving children on a plane for Jeffrey Epstein. Chasin has strongly denied any allegations, according to Politico. “Even after that information was public, Osborn continued to raise money with Chasin until he got caught,” the ad states. Although the fundraiser was scrapped, the ActBlue link to donate with Chasin’s name on it as part of the host committee was still up until Monday morning. After The Daily Wire reached out to the Osborn campaign about the active ActBlue link with Chasin’s name mentioned, it was taken down. A screenshot of the ActBlue link for Dan Osborn’s canceled fundraiser with Dana Chasin as of Monday morning. Chasin, who’s part of the Rockefeller family, told Politico that he’s “never owned or rented a prop plane, or any plane for that matter.” “I stand with the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and their pursuit of justice and accountability,” he added. The Osborn campaign said on background that the claims made against the candidate in the ad are “categorically false,” and underscored that the fundraiser was canceled after they were made aware of Chasin’s alleged Epstein ties. In terms of donations, the campaign said that Chasin did not donate to Osborn’s 2026 race and that the campaign gave $3,300 to an anti-human trafficking charity to serve as an equal counteraction to Chasin’s 2024 donation. “Pete Ricketts is a member of the Epstein Class, and has spent his time in the Senate doing everything he can to protect them, including voting against the release of the Epstein files,” an Osborn spokesperson said in a statement. The Epstein Files Transparency Act passed the Senate with unanimous consent in November, but many Senate Republicans received pushback in September for scrapping a Democrat-backed amendment to a defense bill that would have triggered the release of the files, according to NBC News. “Dan Osborn was notified that an attendee of an event was cited in the files and immediately upon knowing, canceled the event,” the spokesperson continued. “Pete Ricketts is lying because he’s scared of Dan Osborn, and the working people’s movement to take down the Epstein class.” The Cook Political Report currently ranks the Senate race as “Solid Republican.” Osborn ran against Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE) in the 2024 election, garnering 46.5% of the vote compared with just over 53% for the Republican. “Dan Osborn built his brand on moral outrage over Epstein. But when a wealthy Democrat donor named in the Epstein files offered to host a fundraiser, that outrage disappeared fast. Fake Dan Osborn chose campaign cash over the values he pretends to stand for,” Will Coup, Ricketts for Senate communications director, said in a statement to The Daily Wire. The ad serves as another example of how the release of the Epstein files has created a global political shakeup, including the arrests of former Prince Andrew and former British ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson in the United Kingdom.

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