WASHINGTON, June 19, 2026 — More than 24 million Americans get their health coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplace. For most of them, the bill arriving this fall will look nothing like the one they paid in 2025. Two…
WASHINGTON, June 18, 2026 — President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law on July 4, 2025 — nearly twelve months ago. At 870 pages, it was the most sweeping piece of domestic legislation since the 2017…
WASHINGTON, June 17, 2026 — Most Americans spend decades building their 401(k) and IRA balances. Far fewer understand the rules that govern how the government forces those balances back out. Required Minimum Distributions — RMDs — are mandatory annual withdrawals…
WASHINGTON, June 16, 2026 — The Social Security Administration released its 2026 Trustees Report on June 9, and the headline buried in its actuarial tables is stark. The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund — the account that pays retirement…
WASHINGTON, June 15, 2026 — The Federal Reserve’s June 16–17 meeting begins tomorrow morning, and it arrives at one of the more consequential moments in American monetary policy in years. Kevin Warsh — sworn in as the 17th Fed chair…
WASHINGTON, June 15, 2026 — The increase showed up quietly, deducted straight from your Social Security check before you ever saw the money. Medicare Part B premiums rose to $202.90 per month in 2026 — up $17.90 from the $185…
WASHINGTON, June 12, 2026 — Key Takeaways: The most important financial event of the coming week is not an earnings report, not a data release, and not a geopolitical development. It is a press conference in Washington on Wednesday afternoon,…
NEW YORK, June 13, 2026 — The number that defines the morning in American finance is $75 billion. That is how much money SpaceX raised when its shares began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange Friday under the ticker symbol…
WASHINGTON, June 11, 2026 — Key Takeaways: The economic framework for the rest of 2026 changed Wednesday night. Not gradually, not through a series of data releases, but through the specific decision to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles into Karaj and…
WASHINGTON, June 11, 2026 — Social Security retirement benefits feel like the bedrock of American retirement security. They are inflation-adjusted, guaranteed, and — most people assume — untouchable. Most people are wrong about that last part in one very specific…
WASHINGTON, June 10, 2026 — The single most invisible expense in most American retirement portfolios is not a fee that appears on any monthly statement or tax form. It is the 1% annual charge that an assets-under-management financial advisor deducts…
WASHINGTON, June 9, 2026 — Key Takeaways: The $100,000 H-1B fee lasted 47 days. It was announced by the Department of Homeland Security in late April as part of the administration’s broader effort to prioritize American workers in the skilled…