Katherine Sullivan

Tontine, as in the last man standing version of retirement insurance.

The coffee house, established and financed as an actual tontine, is where some of the earliest trading took place after the Buttonwood Agreement was signed nearby in 1792, creating the stock exchange.

Is it still all just a gamble?

And that's it for this special edition of What's New Sunday for March 8th.

USA 250 America's Road to a DIY Retirement is produced by me, Katherine Sullivan, with supervising producer Jana Herron.

Additional support from Flana Patterson and Chris Zinsley.

Sound design and mixing by Michael LaValle.

Fact-checking by Aparna Nathan.

Special thanks to Alicia Minnell and Anna Maria Andriotis.

Michael LaValle wrote our theme music.

Aisha Al-Muslim is our development producer.

Chris Zinsley is our deputy editor.

And Falana Patterson is The Wall Street Journal's head of news audio.

I'm Katherine Sullivan, and we'll be back in a few weeks with another installment of our USA 250 podcast.

What's News will be back with a new episode tomorrow morning.

Thanks for listening.

Here's your Closing Bell Brief for Friday, March 6th.

I'm Katherine Sullivan for The Wall Street Journal.

U.S.

stocks fell today after a weak jobs report showed an unexpected drop in jobs for February.