Browsing: Personal Finance

The U.S. housing market has become unaffordable for many aspiring homeowners, priced out by either high home prices or high mortgage rates. With mortgage rates at…

The IRS has appealed the Tax Court’s second decision in Medtronic Inc. v. Commissioner, and the Eighth Circuit’s ruling will have major reverberations for a particularly…

Social Security benefits will increase 3.2% in 2024 for the nation’s 71 million recipients, raising the average monthly check for a single retired worker to $1,907,…

With the holiday shopping season just starting and prices of many consumer goods continuing to rise, saving money can seem impossible. But those financial pressures also make doing…

It’s called the Sunshine State for a reason — endless sunny days and warm weather make Florida an attractive destination no matter your stage in life. With a…

I will turn 67 next January, and I am still working full time. I have not yet applied for Social Security. I am in my peak…

The Department of Justice continues to focus on pandemic-related fraud. This week, a federal grand jury in the Western District of Tennessee returned an indictment charging…

Economists are heralding their colleague Claudia Goldin’s Nobel Prize win, but everyday women — and men — have plenty of reasons to celebrate the historian of…

Corrected, Oct. 11: An earlier version of this post reported that Juror 26 remained on the jury. This was an error. The judge initially ruled that…

If you have federal student loans, you know that payments are due now after being paused since March of 2020. This has left many Americans scrambling…