The Easiest Way To Read The Wall Street Journal For Free

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If you can't spare the change for a Wall Street Journal digital subscription ($1.99/week), there's a simple way to view any locked page for free.

All it takes is a simple Google Chrome extension called "Read WSJ," which places a little "unlock" button next to any locked articles.

Click the unlock button, and you're off reading the article.

Apparently, the extension grabs a cached version of the WSJ article when it was first published online, then serves up that copy to you.

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This is even easier than copying and pasting the headline into Google and clicking back into a free version of the story from there.