Finding the right vehicle to save for college can be daunting. There are many choices, and it can be difficult to discern the differences among each type of account. Below, we've outlined a few salient features of a few of...
A slight majority of U.S. adults (52 percent) lived in middle-class households in 2016, according to a new report from Pew Research Center. That might seem like only a bare improvement from the previous reporting period in 2011, when the...
Every year, the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and VantageScore Solutions work together to produce the Annual Credit Score Survey. This survey examines how much Americans actually know about the credit system. With the average credit score reaching a record...
An old saying holds that markets are ruled by either greed or fear. Greed once governed cryptocurrencies. The price of Bitcoin, the best-known, rose from about $900 in December 2016 to $19,000 a year later. Recently, fear has been in...
When Leigh McIlvaine first learned that her student loan debt could be forgiven, she was thrilled. In 2008, at age 27, she’d earned a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Minnesota. She’d accrued just under...
Most people who get retirement benefits from Social Security get the bulk of their income from their monthly benefits. Because they don't have many other sources of money to pay for living expenses, the annual cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) that Social...
Pete Roberts of Nottingham, England, was one of the many risk-takers who threw their savings into cryptocurrencies when prices were going through the roof last winter. Now, eight months later, the $23,000 he invested in several digital tokens is worth...
If you’ve ever stepped into the ring with an identity thief, you are probably familiar with a credit freeze. Credit freezes are an incredibly helpful line of defense in protecting your credit, but like everything else that’s good in life,...
The financial state of Social Security is worse than the government says it is, according to the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. The situation is direr than the Social Security Trustees estimate because they are not...
An airline credit card with an insane rewards program was released recently and you just have to have it. Or, the apartment of your dreams just popped up on Padmapper and you need your name on the callbox, like, yesterday....
The tea-leaves may be turning again for Bitcoin. Chart patterns and measures of momentum are hinting at support just as the latest swoon by the largest cryptocurrency heightens apprehension among speculators and true-believers. Technical indicators may be well suited to...
As young people take steps toward their future and eagerly prepare to enter the world of higher education, they are now faced with the seemingly inevitable notion of graduating with at least some student loan debt. While students intend to...
Shares of online home sales site Zillow were down more than 16 percent by the close on Tuesday, marking the company's worst day in nearly seven years. Closing at $49.40 per share, the stock recovered some of its losses from...
Since 1975, when the first retail investment fund that aimed simply to mimic a stockmarket index was launched by Vanguard, such “passive” funds have squeezed margins and profits right across the asset-management industry. On August 1st that trend reached its...
Chinese peer-to-peer protests are setting a political trap for regulators. Beijing police on Monday stopped irate investors from converging on the head office of China’s banking regulator to demand compensation for losses from collapsed P2P lenders. Officials are partly responsible...
