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by breck 3636 days ago
Yes. I get the WSJ paper and online. They generally have deals (right now it's $1/week). The charts and data tables in the paper are probably the closest thing you can get to a business dashboard for the whole world. Fun to read each day to get a sense for everything from tech company valuations to the price of pork. Plus it's fun to have fresh reading material not on a screen. For $1 a week, one of the purchases I get the most value out of. I find it 10-100x more informative than any of the other papers, but I'm numbers oriented and others mileage may vary.
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They generally have deals (right now it's $1/week).

I used to subscribe back about 15 years ago when they first started charging. But I don't subscribe any more.

The problem is the bait-and-switch. The intro price eventually goes away. Right now a 1 yr subscription, digital only, is $174. But right next to it on the website there's a bubble that says "over 50% off". So the non-discounted price is $350/yr? More?

I get tired of shit like that. Charge me $50/yr and I'll pay. Keep jacking up my price and make me scrounge for discounts and I'll pass. Homie don't play dat!