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🍳The New Rules of Money is now in bookstores! 📰 Deputy Coverage Chief, @WSJ Life & Work 👩🏻‍🍼 Extremely offline until 2025

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Bourree Lam
3 years
Here's an INTERESTING way double your pay: Work two full-time remote jobs, don’t tell anyone and, for the most part, don’t do too much work, either. This @RachelFeintzeig story is incredible. Try to read it without screaming.
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2 years
@jazzedloon @emilynussbaum My single is called, 'My Single Is Dropping' … and it's dropping.
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Bourree Lam
1 year
@hugeasmammoth_ What about a bus?
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Bourree Lam
3 years
Some news! Today I start my new gig as deputy coverage chief of @WSJ 's new Life & Work coverage area led by @wallernikki . I'm SO excited as I am all about journalism that helps people make big decisions -- from $$$ to what time to wake up in the morning.
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Bourree Lam
5 years
Some personal news! I'm back to work this week & absolutely thrilled to be joining @WSJ as Bureau Chief of personal finance. Talk to me about all your $$$ feelings (and questions)!
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Bourree Lam
4 years
. @WSJMag 's 10th annual Innovator Awards is tonight at 7 pm! BTS & J.Lo --- enough said amiright?
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Bourree Lam
2 years
It’s been 3 years at ⁦ @WSJ ⁩ and I finally have an A1 plate to show for it!
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Bourree Lam
5 years
Seems like a perfect time to re-up this fact
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Bourree Lam
6 years
Will you look at that: The @nytimes issued a correction on this. Thanks & big props to the @Refinery29 politics team @andreagonram @AshleyAlese @natalie_nyc for pushing for it
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Bourree Lam
3 years
Read @francescamarief on escaping student debt + why managing the impossible didn't feel like a win: "I shudder to think about all of the minutiae, the small breaks and chances I got that, only when stacked atop one another in the right order, allowed me to escape student debt."
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Francesca Fontana
3 years
As a low-income, first-gen college student, I managed the impossible: I paid my way through school, graduating without debt. But I didn't leave school touting the American bootstrap myth. I left thinking the system is broken. My latest column for @WSJ :
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Bourree Lam
12 days
This is what’s up! See you next year, internet
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Bourree Lam
2 years
I've always wondered: If I had gotten married earlier, would I be richer? The money gap between young married couples and singles has widened, thanks to inflation and rising home prices reports @juliaccarpenter
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Bourree Lam
1 year
"I think you should write about some subway trains or I can draw some for you give me a pen." --actual words spoken by my son in the newsroom
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Bourree Lam
9 months
I have literally wished for (and asked for) this for YEARS and today I'm so thrilled to see it happen on @WSJ main
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Bourree Lam
2 years
Big smile this morning, and probably all day/week/month: Went to @penguinrandom to hand in the manuscript @juliaccarpenter and I have been working on the past year! Our book comes out next year 👯‍♀️ (She’s in Venice but here in spirit)
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Bourree Lam
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✨ I’m celebrating 5 years at @WSJ today! Longest job I’ve had in news✨ Exactly 5 years ago today I walked into the newsroom looking for the Mother’s Room because I had a 3 month old at home and needed to pump twice a day. (Snuck back in there for a bump photo 🤰🏻 last week)
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Bourree Lam
5 years
I'm so super proud of this project I've been working really hard on all summer at @WSJ . It's now LIVE! Get ready because yeah this is a thread
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Bourree Lam
4 years
It's been 9 amazing months at @WSJ , and now for more exciting news: I'm hiring! There are two open reporter roles on my team -- both really exciting jobs
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Bourree Lam
2 years
Sweatpants? Furniture? Welcome to the summer of surplus: Retailers are getting ready to cut prices of goods that were popular during the pandemic. Expect ‘discounts like you’ve never seen before.’
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Bourree Lam
1 year
We at @WSJ stand with Evan Gershkovich, as colleagues and journalists. Read his excellent story published just before his arrest #istandwithevan
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Bourree Lam
2 years
The past two years, we've been told to stay resilient through the frustrations, the languishing and the exhaustion. Now, @AlexLJanin reports on a phenomenon called resilience fatigue: the exhaustion that comes after having to stay positive for so long.
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Bourree Lam
5 years
We sent photographer Luo Yang & @kchungdawson to talk to millennial women in a matrileanear society in China about how they felt about other people's fantasy being projected on their society
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Bourree Lam
4 years
Finally caught him creeping on my conference call! (Thanks @GRogow for flagging why everyone was smiling while I was talking about Extremely. Important. Finance. Things.)
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Bourree Lam
6 years
I felt so happy as someone with some mahjong skills when I saw that scene near the end in @CrazyRichMovie So I'm going to try to explain what happened *cracks knuckles*
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Bourree Lam
3 years
It's the summer of national parks: In Utah, Arches reaches capacity and closes its gate to visitors most days before 9 a.m., reports @AllisonPohle
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Bourree Lam
3 years
It’s here! My first @WSJ A1 plate in time for the holidays 🥰
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Bourree Lam
3 years
And here's some more personal + happy news!! @juliaccarpenter and I will be taking our personal-finance-as-recipes approach to the next level w/ cookbook publisher Clarkson Potter! So excited to join their community of innovative chefs, cooks, designers, artists, writers.
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Bourree Lam
3 years
🥰 My husband and I on our morning vaccine date 🥰
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Bourree Lam
2 years
Happy 1st birthday to @WSJ Life & Work! We have a sign + lots of great people + ice cream cake ✌️
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Bourree Lam
3 years
A lot of details in here: "She did everything for me and for the family. She provided everything. She worked every day, 12 hours a day, so that me and our family would have a better life,” Jami Webb said of her mother."
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Bourree Lam
6 months
It’s pub day for The New Rules of Money!!! Thank you to @wallernikki for these gorgeous flowers and everyone at @WSJ for their support
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Bourree Lam
2 years
My favorite thing I’ve overhead in the Hudson Valley this vacation is a young woman telling her date: “For me it’s TikTok or Russian novels. Everything in between is skippable.” He nodded enthusiastically.
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Bourree Lam
9 months
It has been 22 weeks since Evan was detained for doing his job. #IStandwithEvan Our newsroom this morning in solidarity with Ella and Mikhail, Evan's parents.
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Bourree Lam
3 years
My dear friend @JChengWSJ , he made it on @ratemyskyperoom but they flagged him for cord violation!
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Red shelves have great potential. Reframe/square shot. Add light. Fix minor cord violation. 6/10 @JChengWSJ
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Bourree Lam
6 years
I’m nearly 6 months pregnant and def had a little fun tonight on the MTA: walked up to 3 suits talking v loudly about “wrapping it up” bc “you don’t want to miss out on life” and asked for their seat. They all got up & one lady slow clapped me as I sat down 🤣🤣 🙌
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Bourree Lam
4 years
Happy launch day to @WSJ 's Six-Week Money Challenge!! Written by me and @juliaccarpenter and made by a whole team of talented colleagues, you’ll get one email a week with a challenge aimed at improving your knowledge of your finances. Sign up here!
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Bourree Lam
2 years
My son’s snow ducks are back in the neighborhood!
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Bourree Lam
2 years
And then I asked him to stop popping up at @KathrynDill and screaming “boo!” 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Bourree Lam
3 years
👏👏👏 to my @WSJ colleagues for vigorously reporting this historically important and visually stunning series of 9 stories on Black Wall Street. You can see them all here, in front of the paywall:
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Bourree Lam
6 years
To All The Boys Who DM Me After A Story To Tell Me I Missed Something When In Fact They Did Not Read Past The First Paragraph
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Bourree Lam
3 years
Yesterday marked two years at @WSJ for me! It somehow seems longer and shorter than that? Really grateful to be in the company of such incredible reporters, editors, and strategists everyday 🖤
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Bourree Lam
4 years
🎉🎉Huge congrats to @juliaccarpenter @Saunderswsj @francescamarief and The New Rules of Money for winning a @NYNewswomen #FrontPageAward !! 🎉🎉 @WSJ won in 4 categories this year, truly honoring the collaborative spirit of our incredible reporters
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NYNewswomen
4 years
The Newswomen's Club of New York is pleased to announce its 2020 Front Page Award winners.
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Bourree Lam
4 years
Do you ever think about how it became cool to own less stuff + we became less judgy about buying cheap things/meals/beers/gifts, etc.? Wrote up something I've been thinking about for a long time for @WSJ 's special The Decade in Review section!
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Bourree Lam
3 years
Ahhhhhhh SO HONORED to win an #OJA21 esp in such a competitive newsletter world!!! Big 👏👏👏 to the whole @WSJ challenge crew @juliaccarpenter @RobinKwong @eleanoram Allison Foley, Tammy Lian
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Online News Association
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WINNER: Excellence in Newsletters, Portfolio: @WSJ ’s Six-Week Money Challenge #OJA21
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Bourree Lam
3 years
Sesame Street teaches personal finance now lol
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Bourree Lam
2 years
👏👏👏 to @AlexLJanin for this one: "Patients who have taken Paxlovid have described it as sun-baked trash-bag liquid, a mouthful of dirty pennies and rotten soymilk. They have tried to erase the taste with salves from cinnamon to milk to pineapple."
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Bourree Lam
11 months
It's happening!!! Our book cover has landed. It is getting real @juliaccarpenter @jessiekuronen @WSJ You can now PRE-ORDER The New Rules of Money, out this December:
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Bourree Lam
2 years
My toughest interview subject yet
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Bourree Lam
3 years
One more cool thing on the education front: We recently learned @WSJ 's Six-Week Money Challenge, written by me and @juliaccarpenter , is now part of a graduate level personal financial planning course at @NCState 's Master's of Accounting program. Very excited to read the feedback!
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Bourree Lam
6 months
We didn’t have to go far to find our book literally on bookshelves 📚🤩😭 (I’m emotional!) Stop by the 5th avenue @BNBuzz we’re stocked on the ground floor!!
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Bourree Lam
4 years
Happy launch day to WSJ Money! @WSJ ’s new audience-based, mobile-first experience that answers personal finance questions. No paywall. Let’s figure out 💸💸💸 together:
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Bourree Lam
4 years
All I wanted for Mother's Day was pizza and coffee for breakfast. And my 1-year-old to sleep past 7am (he slept until 9!!)
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Bourree Lam
1 year
Not one but TWO Life & Work stories on @WSJ Page One today! 👏👏 @dalvin_brown @jpinsk and @MoiseNoise
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Bourree Lam
1 year
@iamcardib @iamcardib : use our @WSJ Inflation Tracker to see which prices are going up in your household. We've been onto lettuce inflation too!
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Bourree Lam
3 years
This ⁦⁦ @rorysatran ⁩ column is too good. I never had AirPods bc I found them too expensive and now I can say it’s bc they’re out of style: “In short, Air­Pods have be­come too wide­spread to be cool.”
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Bourree Lam
4 years
We're big on the @WSJ homepage today! Whether it’s retirement or a down payment, academic research says New Year’s Day is one of the best times to initiate change. So if you're thinking about your finances going into 2020, you're not alone -- and we've got readings for you
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Bourree Lam
2 years
Date night is dead (or just really really expensive!) But seriously babysitters have always been the MVPs
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Bourree Lam
4 years
My 7 year old niece wrote me a letter and frankly it's incredible
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Bourree Lam
3 years
🎉 More EXCITING NEWS this week 🎉 The @WSJ Six-Week Money Challenge by me, @juliaccarpenter @RobinKwong @eleanoram is a finalist in @ONA 's 2021 Online Journalism Awards, honoring the best work in digital journalism:
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Bourree Lam
4 years
Read the @WSJ story on the transforming Greenwood district nearly 100 years after race massacre: “It’s not a sense of ‘Let’s do it.’ It is ‘Let’s bring it back, because our ancestors did it so well’ ”
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Bourree Lam
6 years
Thank you to my dad Tak for raising me while my mom killed it at work. Here's a photo of us at mom's office back in the day. My dad took me to school & made my lunch everyday (PB&J triangles). Sometimes when I behaved, we got to visit mom at work
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Bourree Lam
4 years
🎉Check out today’s very special New Year edition of @WSJ ’s 10-Point newsletter! It’s the personal finance takeover edition!!! 🎉
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Bourree Lam
3 years
Last summer, we launched @WSJ 's first ever email course about money and personal finance. We had an overwhelming response. You asked to learn next about investing, and we listened. Presenting the @WSJheard @WSJpersfinance 5-Week Investing Challenge!
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Bourree Lam
4 years
We have some great personal finance stories today at @WSJ . The first is a topic that's become really relevant: How do you build an emergency fund if it's already raining? We asked 35 financial advisers, behavioral economists and other experts to help
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Bourree Lam
2 years
Meet the class of 2022. They are the most in-demand college graduates to enter the job market in years. They have the expectations to match, reports @lindsayaellis . The pandemic, and inflation, sharpened their focus on pay.
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Bourree Lam
3 years
Exciting Monday news: We're looking for a personal finance reporter to join my team at @WSJ ! You will be involved in the @WSJpersfinance group’s multitude of digital offerings and break newsworthy service $$$ stories. More details here:
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Bourree Lam
1 year
Did something that terrified me over the weekend and it wasn't half bad 😇
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Bourree Lam
2 years
There's extra significance in this for those in NYC: The park where this interview was filmed is just a block away from Christina Yuna Lee's apartment. I recognized it immediately.
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“It's the stereotypes around Asian women that make us more likely to be hunted, right? We're supposed to be submissive.” @AmaraCNN speaks to Asian American women who say they live in fear over the rise of violent attacks against Asian Americans across the country.
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Bourree Lam
1 year
But what if @WSJ is already next-gen WSJ? 🤔
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Max Tani
1 year
Insider EIC @nichcarlson addresses the newsroom post-strike, says “after a few years of drift,” the media company is returning to its core focus of business, economy, and tech coverage and becoming “the next-gen WSJ”
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Bourree Lam
2 years
The role of workplace friendships is now getting a big test, reports @lindsayaellis . As part of "quiet quitting" more workers are saying they're not here to make friends, cutting back on workplace socializing and bonding.
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Bourree Lam
3 years
Just heard the episode of @ThisAmerLife that features this video. The guy playing is so sweet you'll actually love him after hearing it??
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Bourree Lam
3 years
Whenever my 2-year-old hears @WNYC read its station name he shouts "on ABCD!" and I swear it's as cute as it sounds
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Bourree Lam
1 year
I like when random stuff I wrote 10 years ago starts trending! "Additionally, the researchers also found that for both men and women, there's a strong relationship between health insurance coverage and first marriage: Men with healthcare had 30% higher odds, and women 16%."
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union membership: very sexy
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4 years
Very excited to show off the new @WSJ ~Flexicle~ an experimental feature to make our coverage more accessible and a step towards personalization. A great collab between R&D, Innovation, and Market teams! @a_zeisler @RobinKwong @GunjanJS @WSJmarkets
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Bourree Lam
1 year
I started working at @WSJ after giving birth for the first time. I was so tired I would just blurt out "I'm pumping!" to anyone who asked where I was. I am in awe of @SabrinaSiddiqui and her story on pumping on her historic trip to a war zone with President Biden. Read it.
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Sofia casually making her print debut at 10 months old. Kid has no idea how long it took her Mama to appear in print.
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Bourree Lam
3 years
How it started (having to carry him to have conf calls) vs. How it's going (him sitting in on the conf calls now 🤷‍♀️)
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Bourree Lam
4 years
A motto for 2020
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Ben Pershing
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Japan’s theme parks have banned screaming on roller coasters because it spreads coronavirus. “Please scream inside your heart.”
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4 years
Many on my street are cheering, an old lady is crying in her front yard, cars are honking, and I even hear a trumpet???
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Bourree Lam
2 years
This column is 🔥. How to fail up at work from people who've done it: "“The bigger the organization is, the more room you have to move around and fail," writes @callumborchers
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Bourree Lam
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Found my @WSJ ⁩ colleague ⁦ @DionRabouin ⁩ in Tokyo! He won our bet that I wouldn’t be able to find a single trash can our entire walk through Minato and Shibuya
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Bourree Lam
4 years
If you're a @WSJ member, you can use our new AI-driven tool to make your own hedcut!!!
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Bourree Lam
3 years
Some news: My department is joining @WSJ 's new initiative to provide our readers with important information and insight for the big decisions in their lives, from how they spend, save, and invest to how they plot their careers, pay for school & more.
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3 years
Some people take their birthdays off but for me it's Chinese New Year. I'm not going anywhere I just have to walk around my apartment and eat turnip cake and talk to other Chinese people about astrology and random auspicious stuff we're all going to do
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Bourree Lam
2 years
As another pandemic year wraps, this is the thing I'm most proud of professionally! This was such a collaborative newsroom win for us at @WSJ , down to locating this trophy which required bureaucratic sleuthing by @H_Canada and mailroom help from our clerk John McGoorty. #OJA2021
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Bourree Lam
3 years
Honestly couldn't have said it better myself: "Chinese food is so much more than cheap."
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Bourree Lam
2 years
Tonight NYC felt the same as it always was: the ladies stayed to finish drinks as ⁦ @juliaccarpenter ⁩ ⁦ @jjmccorvey ⁩ dashed off to Friday night dates. Thanks to the @WSJ PF team, for lots of stuff but especially a really great 3 years.
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Bourree Lam
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Congrats to our @WSJ Life & Work intern @j0urnalistkatie for her first story this summer! Yes, there are people out there who are really happy with their paycheck, she reports
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Bourree Lam
4 years
I'm floored by this essay by @leahcarroll . If you read one personal finance essay this month (or really, this year), make it this one.
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Bourree Lam
3 years
Our @WSJ TINY MONEY series is all about small, doable financial tasks, habits, and tips to help you achieve your 2021 goals. Read @juliaccarpenter on why a micro budget makes sense when time feels so weird right now
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Bourree Lam
4 years
This visual feature is great and answers so many questions I've had in past days?
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