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Wolf Street Corp
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I will send you one of our second-generation 12-oz glass mugs (see photo below) to thank you for your very generous donation of $100 or more if your address is in the US, and if you would like a mug.
San Francisco artist Erika “Kitten” Lopez created the wraparound art on the mug: a funny wolf howling the WOLF STREET dictum, “Nothing goes to Heck in a Straight Line.”
If you would like a mug, please email me; include your shipping address in the US (I cannot ship outside the US) and phone number (FedEx will not deliver without phone number). Send the email to: howlatwolfstreet@gmail.com
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Enjoy reading WOLF STREET and want to support it? You can donate. I appreciate it immensely. Click on the mug to find out how:
You should allow Apple Pay also. So much easier to use
I would have to set up accounts with Visa and MC and deal with all those issues, including the data, because when you use Apple Pay, the payment would go through your credit/debit card to Wolf Street.
I use PayPal as a payments platform so you can pay by credit card, and I don’t have to handle credit cards and the data that comes with it. I don’t want the data. Fees would be about the same as PayPal. I’m a tiny merchant and pay the maximum fees to Visa and MC. Apple Pay is free, or nearly free, but the credit card payment is not.
Zelle is free for both sides.
Hey Wolf,
Is FedNow good enough for your use case yet? Maybe it wouldn’t apply here but it seems like a major enhancement over ACH.
Yes, it seems to have improved. ACH works pretty well for business to business.
but I think I would have to be a bank to get access to a FedNow account. So I don’t think they’ll let me in.
Apple is the Evil Empire. The Walled Garden you will never escape. Tim Cook was one of the first to come crawling to the White House with that ugly gold laden plaque. Everything that company has produced since the iPhone is mediocre industrial design. Had to get it out…..”Apple Intelligence” is repackaged Google Gemini
Keep up the good work!
Investors who value his work, please donate to keep it going.
✔️
Wanted to donate but the PayPal interface was requiring my telephone number which I refuse to give.
Sorry. Requiring address and phone number and other details is pretty much standard for online credit card payments to prevent credit card fraud.
But there are other options (see info above):
1. Zelle. Your bank likely participates in Zelle, so you already have it. You just need to go to your online bank account, look under “payments” or “transfers” where “Zelle” should be listed, then set it up. Setup takes two minutes. After that it’s a breeze. Zelle is owned by banks. Zelle goes by email, not bank account info. You’ll send it to my email address. And your name is all I see. It works very well.
2. Mail a check, no phone number required.
I sent 100, Date
November 15, 2025
Transaction ID
7075-1137-4154-088
I never received my mug and on Nov 16 or 17 you called me stupid for complaining about Fed Williams jawboning and referring to Williams at PPPT and changing Fed future watch, ha I respect that you cared more about your opinions than recurring revenue.
Please send me mug!
I was hoping to get set of them over time, that’s how the ball bounces.
Thanks
Thank you for your very generous donation. You never contacted me requesting a mug. Mugs don’t get sent out automatically. If you want a mug, you need to ask for a mug – as explained above – because not everyone wants a mug, and in the early days, I sent mugs to people who didn’t want them, which was embarrassing.
I also need your street address in the US and a phone number so that I can ship you the mug (FedEx will not accept the package without the recipient’s phone number).
My email address is in the article above.
I will be happy to ship you a mug after I get your shipping address and phone number so that I can ship it.
Delusional about inflation,
I still haven’t heard from you; I still need your shipping address and phone number. I cannot ship the mug without it.
Zelled! Merci!
Thank you!
Does a $500 donation of Monopoly Money get a mug? I can Zelle it, snail mail it, PayPal it – however you like.
A note to you – Monopoly
Money is no worse than those other bills!
You can try to Zelle the monopoly money, and if it goes through, that would be awesome, and you’ll get a mug. You would still need to let me know your street address and phone number so that I can ship you the mug (use the email address above).
Thanks Wolf for all the hard work and great info you provide (freely) on your site!
I just sent you a Zelle donation…
Around 6 or 7 years ago I was actively looking for a solid, “comprehensive” financial website and/or newsletter – which I was fully willing to pay to “subscribe” to for access.
Especially so I could better stay “up to date” with Federal Reserve policy/interest rates/etc. As well as timely updates on Inflation/Employment Data/GDP/Govt Debt/etc.
I “stumbled” upon your site and have been delighted. Your updates and analysis/graphs/etc are almost “real time” (usually within hours or less of financial data releases/etc).
Your info and analysis are unbiased and “even handed”- and “backed” by “hard” numbers/graphs/etc.
Your great “moderated” comments section allows readers to ask questions and interact with you and other readers – without getting too far off track from the topic being discussed.
And I love your spectacular (in my opinion) sense of humor thrown in for some spice here and there.
Therefore, I’ve been happily donating to your site for I think going on about 5 years now. I consider it a privilege and my “subscription” to support for your important work. Thank you and keep up the great work!
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PS Zelle note for other readers who might be “skeptical” about using Zelle to donate to your efforts (like I was).
Up until this last December, I usually “mailed” in a paper donation check.
However, after seeing/reading more about Zelle in your last donation reminder late last Fall – I did a LOT of research on Zelle.
I am probably one or your most suspicious and paranoid readers when it comes to electronic/online payment vulnerabilities/etc. After my in-depth research, the Zelle payment system “passed” all of my high bars of paranoia.
Incidentally, as a “further precaution”, I have “linked” my bank Zelle info to a very low balance and seldom used “side” checking account. Just to keep it “isolated” in case something totally unexpected happened.
I have been very happy with Zelle.
Thank you for mentioning more about Zelle – so that I finally got the “hint” about using it. I may likely use it for a few other things now (with very fully trusted/known people/entities).
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In regard to using Zelle to donate to WolfStreet – for me – here’s a fast list of “benefits” compared to my previous way of mailing in a “paper” donation check:
1) I don’t have to pay for or use an envelope.
2) I don’t have to address an envelope (with the “sending” address or my “return” address).
3) I don’t have to use a stamp (which sounds like may soon go up to $1 a stamp for 1st class in USA?).
4) I don’t have to pay for or use a “paper” check.
5) I don’t have to write out the info on a “paper” check.
6) I don’t have to lick the envelope.
7) I don’t have to put the envelope into the mail.
8) And MOST important (to me), I don’t have to worry about the US Post Office possibly losing or damaging or “mis-delivering” my envelope to the “wrong” address (with the enclosed paper check with my bank routing number and account number – which could absolutely fully compromise that checking account) — and/or these days – my envelope getting “stolen” somewhere along the several thousand mile journey to your media mogul empire headquarters.
In summary, using Zelle saves me time/effort and money – and is much more “secure” in my opinion than my mailing a “paper” check – and was an overall very pleasant experience and a “new trick” for this old dog to learn.
Thanks again Wolf! :)
Thank you!!! I have been using Zelle since 2014, including regularly sending money between my wife and me (as we have separate accounts), and many people have donated with Zelle, and no one that I know of ever had any kind of problem with Zelle.
The news stories about “Zelle fraud” affected people who didn’t use Zelle and didn’t know they had it at their bank account, and didn’t even know what it was, and they got scammed by someone who called them.
And… privacy: Zelle goes by email, and no personal info is disclosed to the recipient (me). I don’t even see the sender’s email address. Just the name.
Your Zelle email is different from your howlatwolfstreet@gmail.com?
Appreciate your hard work presenting and data.
Yes. I don’t post my Zelle email publicly so that it doesn’t get loaded up with spam.
$100. Done.
Practically the only reliable news source around!
Going to drop a check in the mail. Will you accept some hand picked and parched wild rice as well? It’s the good stuff, northern MN treat.
YESSSS!
Do people really still pick wild rice? Amazing. We occasionally buy “wild rice” at the store, but I always thought it was farmed, just like farmed “wild arugula” that we buy, which is a type of arugula, but not actually picked in the wild.
It’s a fun fall activity if the weather is good. I picked about 800lbs last year, which is 400 finished. It’s a fast dying activity though. Average age of pickers seems to be in their 70’s. The market is pretty bonkers right now, none of it makes sense.
Wow, thanks!
PayPal’ed. Interesting publication even though I often disagree with some of your political comments.
I donated an embarrassingly small amount because I work as an in-home care provider. Your writing is helpful and entertaining. Thank you for preventing me from getting my face ripped off.
Thanks for reliable commentary during crazy times. I’m happy to donate.