Last updated: April 23, 2026
The Everyday Economy exists to explain economic news through a household-finance lens. The editorial goal is not to sound like a trading desk or a wire service. It is to help readers understand what a reported development may mean for bills, debt, savings, housing costs, pay, or job decisions.
Source Use And Attribution
The site relies on existing reporting, official releases, and structured source metadata. It should not imply that it conducted interviews, field reporting, or original fact-gathering when it did not.
Editorial expectations:
- numbers should come from the source material available to the drafting system
- attribution should stay tied to the original reporting or institution
- uncertainty should be stated clearly when a source is conditional or forward-looking
- explanatory language should not turn a limited source claim into a broader factual claim
Article Generation Flow
The current workflow is structured, automated, and rule-based:
1. Topics may be selected from curated seed topics or selected RSS feeds. 2. A draft is generated from topic metadata and available source facts. 3. Editorial polishing rewrites the draft into a household-impact explainer. 4. Validation checks look for unsupported claims, missing attribution, formatting issues, and other quality problems. 5. The draft is either exported locally for review or sent to WordPress as a draft or publish action, depending on configuration.
The regular automated publishing path is designed to run without OpenAI calls. Optional one-off tooling, such as live refresh or image workflows, does not change the requirement to keep claims source-grounded.
Editorial Rules
The Everyday Economy aims to:
- explain what changed before offering interpretation
- identify affected groups, conditions, and tradeoffs where the source supports that framing
- translate macro news into plain-language household context
- avoid repetitive filler phrasing and generic template openings
- avoid invented numbers, invented comparisons, invented quotes, or invented sources
- avoid presenting commentary as personalized financial, legal, or tax advice
Independence
Advertising, sponsorships, partnerships, or affiliate relationships should not determine which topics are covered or how a reported development is described. If paid relationships are introduced, they should be labeled clearly and separated from editorial judgment.
Corrections And Updates
When a post is materially wrong, misleading, or out of date in a way that changes reader understanding, the publisher may update the headline, excerpt, body copy, attribution, or contextual framing. Corrections requests can be sent through the Contact page.
Limits
This site is explanatory commentary, not original investigative reporting and not personalized professional advice.