WASHINGTON, APRIL 6, 2026 — Key Takeaways More than 400,000 Americans file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy every year. For many, it is the most powerful legal tool available for escaping debt that has become mathematically impossible to repay — especially…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 4, 2026 — Key Takeaways The March jobs report arrived Friday as a genuine surprise — and given everything happening in the U.S. economy right now, the country needed one. Employers added 178,000 jobs last month, the strongest…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 3, 2026 — Key Takeaways Life insurance is one of the most important financial decisions an American family makes — and one of the most misunderstood. The industry generates more than $900 billion in annual premiums in the…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 2, 2026 — Key Takeaways The word economists dread most — stagflation — is back. And this time, it is not a theoretical risk on a projection model. It is happening in real time, in the data, in…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 1, 2026 — Millions of Americans receiving Social Security in 2026 opened their January statements expecting a meaningful raise. What they found instead was a benefit that grew on paper but barely moved in practice. The 2026 cost-of-living…
WASHINGTON, MARCH 31, 2026 — The number every American driver dreads crossed $4 Tuesday. The national average gas price reached $4.07 per gallon — the highest level since the summer of 2022, when post-pandemic inflation peaked and gas briefly touched…
WASHINGTON, MARCH 30, 2026 — Tax Day is April 15. You have 16 days. And this year, thanks to the most significant tax law changes since 2017, millions of Americans are sitting on refund money they do not know how…
WASHINGTON, MARCH 29, 2026 — The Iran war has been the dominant story of March 2026. But while oil prices and military casualties have consumed the headlines, a quieter economic reckoning has been building in the background — one that…
WASHINGTON, MARCH 28, 2026 — Six weeks. That is how long 46,000 Transportation Security Administration officers worked without reliable pay while screening millions of Americans at airports across the country. While spring break travelers faced two-hour security lines and missed…
WASHINGTON, MARCH 28, 2026 — The word “correction” sounds clinical. What it actually describes is the moment when millions of American retirement accounts, college savings plans, and investment portfolios are worth measurably less than they were a few weeks ago…
WASHINGTON, MARCH 27, 2026 — The Iran war is now 27 days old. It has killed more than 2,850 people across the region, displaced over a million Lebanese, pushed American gas prices to $3.98 per gallon, driven oil above $118…
WASHINGTON, MARCH 27, 2026 — The fear of an IRS audit is one of the most universal anxieties in American financial life — and one of the most widely misunderstood. Most Americans dramatically overestimate the likelihood that they will be…