The Monday Brief · from Tate Esq · updated weekly
The most useful 5 minutes you'll spend on your student loans this week.
Federal or private. Six figures or six hundred. Each Monday I read the rule changes, court orders, and lender small-print rewrites — so you can read 800 words and know exactly what to do next.
Written for borrowers like —
The rhythm
One Monday letter. One monthly live AMA. The rest is silence.
No drip campaigns, no upsell sequences. The only time we email outside the cadence is when something actually changed mid-week.
Mon The Brief
One email, every Monday morning. Around 10 minutes long, 5 to read what affects you.
Every week Wed Extras
Only when something real changes mid-week — a ruling, a servicer outage, a deadline.
Sometimes Fri Reader letters
Rare. The week's best subscriber question, answered in full. Maybe two a month.
Sometimes Sat AMA
First Saturday of every month. I answer subscriber questions, live, in a thread.
MonthlyRead past editions
Read a few before you decide.
- Apr 30 Monday Brief The new rules just dropped
- Apr 29 AMA AMA this Saturday
- Apr 27 Monday Brief "Loan forgiveness is not happening"
- Apr 20 Monday Brief The next 90 days
- Apr 16 Monday Brief He almost moved to Alaska instead
- Apr 15 Monday Brief Two ways to buy yourself time
- Apr 08 Monday Brief The decision you're stuck on
- Apr 06 Monday Brief $0 Payments (Legally)
- Apr 01 Monday Brief Your Next Move
- Mar 31 Monday Brief More SAVE, Forgiveness, and Parents
- Mar 30 Monday Brief When to leave SAVE
- Mar 18 Monday Brief A Flood of Forgiveness?
- Mar 11 Monday Brief SAVE is DEAD. Now what?
- Mar 05 AMA AMA Saturday at 11:00 a.m. EST
- Mar 03 Monday Brief What's happening with the SAVE Plan
- Feb 26 Monday Brief Automatic discharges coming soon?
- Feb 19 AMA Student loan update: what to do now
- Feb 17 AMA AMA Replay Recording February 2026
- Feb 13 AMA AMA Tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. EST
- Feb 12 Monday Brief New forgiveness today
- Feb 10 Monday Brief Help w/IDR Tax Bomb
- Feb 04 Monday Brief Open Letter
- Jan 29 Monday Brief Getting unstuck