Personal Finance
The summer sun can turn your car into what feels like an oven on wheels. If you want to make returning to your parked car a little more bearable on those scorching hot days, use a sunshade. However, not all sunshades are created equal. If you’re using a flimsy one…
Quick math problem. You pay Amazon $139 a year for a Prime membership. Recently, a JPMorgan analyst touting Amazon stock pegged the real value of that membership at $1,440 — more than 10 times what you’re shelling out. So is Prime the best deal in America, or is something else…
A recent Pew Research Center survey finds that 71% of U.S. homeowners say their home insurance costs have increased over the past few years. More than 4 in 10 say the increase has been steep. Americans have noticed the same rising bill, but they do not agree on what is…
Small, everyday purchases like a meal from DoorDash are now able to be financed through eat now, pay later options — a practice that some experts deem “predatory.” “You’ve got to have enough sense to not follow the urge to finance a taco, okay? You have got to be an…
After years spent studying, weeks of final exams and afternoons spent booing commencement speakers when they brought up artificial intelligence, the class of 2026 has graduated into an economy in which consumer sentiment is near all-time lows. New college graduates are entering “the real world” without rose-colored glasses. At 76%,…
Overcoming the feeling that small amounts are pointless is the hardest part of building a cash cushion. Stashing $50 feels trivial and pointless. The flaw in that logic is that while $50 may be a drop in the ocean, regularly putting away that amount is not. Overcoming inertia Overcoming the initial…
Consumer prices fell 0.1% in March, according to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This is the first monthly drop since July 2022. Annual inflation increased 2.4% compared to a 2.8% increase registered in February. Core inflation, which excludes volatile energy and food…
The Federal Reserve is keeping rates steady at its targeted range of 4% to 4.25% and is waiting to see how President Donald Trump’s administration’s tariffs will impact the economy. For now, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that the central bank is in the right place to monitor the…
Americans have trillions of dollars of wealth locked up in their homes, and passing it on at death can get messy quickly. The typical way of outlining who should get the house in a will can cause delays after death—so much so that most states have set up a new…
President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” cleared the House and is making its way through the Senate. Still, critics point out the bill, which is over 1,000 pages, will add trillions to what is already ballooning government debt hovering at $36 trillion and deficits. However, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent…
