No. 141
11 Aug 2026
Why your first salary hike feels smaller than it is
Bracket creep, deductions, and the math nobody explains.
Salary
12:05
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A weekly video ledger on money, mistakes, and math
Plain-language videos on saving, investing, and the arithmetic of not going broke — filmed, edited, and fact-checked by one person with a spreadsheet habit.
A quarter-long experiment in expense tracking, with the three habits that mattered and the eleven that didn't.
The Margin Call started as a personal expense tracker shared with a few friends. It's now a weekly video series about the unglamorous mechanics of money — budgeting, saving, debt, and the occasional spreadsheet obsession.
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