WASHINGTON, April 24, 2026 — Is Social Security Actually Going Bankrupt? The short answer is no — but the longer answer is more uncomfortable than the reassurance suggests. Social Security will not go bankrupt. Payroll taxes continue flowing into the…
NEW YORK, April 24, 2026 — A Market That Hit a Record High and Still Finished in the Red Thursday’s session was a study in contradiction. The S&P 500 notched a new all-time intraday high in morning trading, then reversed…
WASHINGTON, April 24, 2026 — What Does Medicare Currently Cover — and What Gap Does This Bill Target? Medicare covers hospital stays, surgery, physician visits, outpatient procedures, lab work, and durable medical equipment. What it has never covered is food.…
WASHINGTON, April 23, 2026 — How the Strait of Hormuz Became Every American’s Problem Americans do not live near the Persian Gulf. But their wallets do. The closure — and now the controlled, contested partial reopening — of the Strait…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 23, 2026 — Most Americans know they should contribute more to their 401(k). Most don’t. The gap between knowing and doing is not usually laziness — it is a combination of not understanding the numbers, not knowing the…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 21, 2026 — Before February 28, the consensus forecast for the US economy in 2026 was cautiously optimistic. The Federal Reserve was expected to cut rates once or twice. Inflation was grinding toward 2%. Job growth was modest…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 21, 2026 — Social Security is the financial backbone of American retirement. More than 70 million people receive benefits from the program — nearly one in five Americans — and for more than half of retirees it represents…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 20, 2026 — The American dream of homeownership is not dead in 2026. But for millions of Americans — particularly first-time buyers, young families, and those without substantial existing equity — it has been deferred to a future…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 20, 2026 — Nobody sits down one morning and decides to go broke. It happens in stages — a job loss, a medical crisis, a divorce, a period of high interest rates that turned manageable debt into something…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 19, 2026 — The Federal Reserve’s job is deceptively simple in theory: keep inflation at 2% and employment high. In practice, 2026 has handed the central bank one of the most genuinely difficult macroeconomic environments it has faced…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 16, 2026 — Something unusual happened Wednesday. The S&P 500 crossed its all-time record high for the first time since January, completing a remarkable 10% recovery in just 11 trading sessions. Investment banks reported their most profitable quarter…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 15, 2026 — America’s 43 million federal student loan borrowers are heading toward a July 1 deadline that most of them are not prepared for. The most sweeping restructuring of federal student loan policy in a generation —…