The absolute nerve of some websites to put material taken FROM OTHER SITES and put them behind their own paywall.

To wit:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/should-i-rush-to-take-my-rmd-while-the-s-p-500-is-down-or-wait-until-the-end-of-the-year-like-normal-36eaa88b?mod=home_lead

is paywalled to me.

But, by simply searching the headline in Goggle, I find that the original post was made by Dow Jones, and is free to read at any number of other websites, including Morningstar:

https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20250410296/should-i-rush-to-take-my-rmd-while-the-sp-500-is-down-or-wait-until-the-end-of-the-year-like-normal

I'm sure that Marketwatch has some kind of deal with (or maybe shares owners with) Dow Jones, but paywalling something that is freely available elsewhere is reprehensible.

Or, caveat emptor I guess. Stupid people deserve stupid prizes.

(P.S. No, I don't take financial advice from hacky websites. But a lot of my NPC friends do, and I need to know what shitty advice they are getting so that I may casually refute it in conversation.)